@article{illusionsofthegoldstandardalargescaleana, title = {Illusions of the Gold Standard: A Large-scale Analysis of Human Evaluation Protocols for Long-form Text Generation}, author = {Katelyn Xiaoying Mei and Yi-Li Hsu and Minjoon Choi and Zongwan Cao and Chenjun Xu and Bingbing Wen and Su Lin Blodgett and Lucy Lu Wang}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.07936}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07936}, }