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Factual consistency is one of the most important requirements when editing high quality documents. It is extremely important for automatic text generation systems like summarization, question answering, dialog modeling, and language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Tathagata Raha , Mukund Choudhary , Abhinav Menon , Harshit Gupta , KV Aditya Srivatsa , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

While neural language models can generate text with remarkable fluency and coherence, controlling for factual correctness in generation remains an open research question. This major discrepancy between the surface-level fluency and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Saadia Gabriel , Asli Celikyilmaz , Rahul Jha , Yejin Choi , Jianfeng Gao

Fact-based dialogue generation is a task of generating a human-like response based on both dialogue context and factual texts. Various methods were proposed to focus on generating informative words that contain facts effectively. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Ryota Tanaka , Akinobu Lee

Text articles with false claims, especially news, have recently become aggravating for the Internet users. These articles are in wide circulation and readers face difficulty discerning fact from fiction. Previous work on credibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Nurendra Choudhary , Rajat Singh , Ishita Bindlish , Manish Shrivastava

Recent pre-trained abstractive summarization systems have started to achieve credible performance, but a major barrier to their use in practice is their propensity to output summaries that are not faithful to the input and that contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Tanya Goyal , Greg Durrett

Factuality is important to dialogue summarization. Factual error correction (FEC) of model-generated summaries is one way to improve factuality. Current FEC evaluation that relies on factuality metrics is not reliable and detailed enough.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan , Jia Su , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

Large language models hallucinate factual claims and struggle to ground their outputs in retrievable evidence, particularly in non-English languages. Existing resources impose a trade-off: structured knowledge bases lack textual grounding,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yingli Shen , Wen Lai , Jie Zhou , Xueren Zhang , Yudong Wang , Kangyang Luo , Shuo Wang , Ge Gao , Alexander Fraser , Maosong Sun

Evaluating the factual consistency of automatically generated summaries is essential for the progress and adoption of reliable summarization systems. Despite recent advances, existing factuality evaluation models are not robust, being…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Shangbin Feng , Vidhisha Balachandran , Yuyang Bai , Yulia Tsvetkov

The paper presents an approach to semantic grounding of language models (LMs) that conceptualizes the LM as a conditional model generating text given a desired semantic message formalized as a set of entity-relationship triples. It embeds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Chris Alberti , Kuzman Ganchev , Michael Collins , Sebastian Gehrmann , Ciprian Chelba

This research focuses on utilizing natural language processing techniques to predict stock price fluctuations, with a specific interest in early detection of economic, political, social, and technological changes that can be leveraged for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Krutika Sarode , Shashidhar Reddy Javaji , Vishal Kalakonnavar

The use of large language models (LLMs) has significantly increased since the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, demonstrating their value across various applications. However, a major challenge for enterprise and commercial adoption of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-28 N. E. Kriman

Accurate text summarization is one of the most common and important tasks performed by Large Language Models, where the costs of human review for an entire document may be high, but the costs of errors in summarization may be even greater.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Alex Chandler , Devesh Surve , Hui Su

Reliable evaluation is essential for understanding large language model (LLM) performance, yet today's go-to metrics, namely token-overlap scores (e.g., ROUGE) and embedding-based measures (e.g., BERTScore), often misjudge semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Siran Li , Ece Sena Etoglu , Carsten Eickhoff , Seyed Ali Bahrainian

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for mechanisms to verify the factual accuracy of their outputs. In this work, we present a holistic end-to-end solution for annotating the…

We present WikiReading, a large-scale natural language understanding task and publicly-available dataset with 18 million instances. The task is to predict textual values from the structured knowledge base Wikidata by reading the text of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Daniel Hewlett , Alexandre Lacoste , Llion Jones , Illia Polosukhin , Andrew Fandrianto , Jay Han , Matthew Kelcey , David Berthelot

Despite being vast repositories of factual information, cross-domain knowledge graphs, such as Wikidata and the Google Knowledge Graph, only sparsely provide short synoptic descriptions for entities. Such descriptions that briefly identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Rajarshi Bhowmik , Gerard de Melo

Due to the exponential growth of information and the need for efficient information consumption the task of summarization has gained paramount importance. Evaluating summarization accurately and objectively presents significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dong Yuan , Eti Rastogi , Fen Zhao , Sagar Goyal , Gautam Naik , Sree Prasanna Rajagopal

Extracting query-document relevance from the sparse, biased clickthrough log is among the most fundamental tasks in the web search system. Prior art mainly learns a relevance judgment model with semantic features of the query and document…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Lixin Zou , Changying Hao , Hengyi Cai , Suqi Cheng , Shuaiqiang Wang , Wenwen Ye , Zhicong Cheng , Simiu Gu , Dawei Yin

Decision making theories such as Fuzzy-Trace Theory (FTT) suggest that individuals tend to rely on gist, or bottom-line meaning, in the text when making decisions. In this work, we delineate the process of developing GisPy, an open-source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Pedram Hosseini , Christopher R. Wolfe , Mona Diab , David A. Broniatowski

Large language models can now directly generate answers to many factual questions without referencing external sources. Unfortunately, relatively little attention has been paid to methods for evaluating the quality and correctness of these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Negar Arabzadeh , Amin Bigdeli , Charles L. A. Clarke