This year the International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) will feature an award for the paper with the best evaluation. The purpose of this award is to provide an incentive for NLG researchers to pay more attention to the way they assess the output of their systems. This essay provides a short introduction to evaluation in NLG, explaining key terms and distinctions.

翻译：今年国际自然语言生成会议（INLG）将设立最佳评估论文奖。该奖项旨在激励NLG研究人员更加关注其系统输出的评估方式。本文简要介绍NLG评估中的核心术语与关键区分。