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Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Scientific Text Simplification using Ensemble Approaches: DS@GT at CLEF 2025 SimpleText

Computation and Language 2025-08-19 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our methodology for the CLEF 2025 SimpleText Task 2, which focuses on detecting and evaluating creative generation and information distortion in scientific text simplification. Our solution integrates multiple strategies: we construct an ensemble framework that leverages BERT-based classifier, semantic similarity measure, natural language inference model, and large language model (LLM) reasoning. These diverse signals are combined using meta-classifiers to enhance the robustness of spurious and distortion detection. Additionally, for grounded generation, we employ an LLM-based post-editing system that revises simplifications based on the original input texts.

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@article{arxiv.2508.11823,
  title  = {Hallucination Detection and Mitigation in Scientific Text Simplification using Ensemble Approaches: DS@GT at CLEF 2025 SimpleText},
  author = {Krishna Chaitanya Marturi and Heba H. Elwazzan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11823},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Text Simplification, hallucination detection, LLMs, CLEF 2025, SimpleText, CEUR-WS