Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-14 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.
Published 2026-10-14 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-15
Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-15
Character Error Rate (CER), the standard metric for OCR and vision-language models (VLMs), charges a typo as much as a wrong name. We introduce semCER, which keeps CER's alignment and denominator and charges each grapheme edit a severity from an LLM judge, with no word segmentation. Normalized CER keeps the score of a whole transcription, where it tracks readers as well as semCER or better, and se