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Dialogue summarization aims to generate a summary that indicates the key points of a given dialogue. In this work, we propose an end-to-end neural model for dialogue summarization with two novel modules, namely, the \emph{supporting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Wang Chen , Piji Li , Hou Pong Chan , Irwin King

Ensuring factual consistency is crucial for natural language generation tasks, particularly in abstractive summarization, where preserving the integrity of information is paramount. Prior works on evaluating factual consistency of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Haoyi Qiu , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Jingnong Qu , Nanyun Peng

Evidence-based fact checking aims to verify the truthfulness of a claim against evidence extracted from textual sources. Learning a representation that effectively captures relations between a claim and evidence can be challenging. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Canasai Kruengkrai , Junichi Yamagishi , Xin Wang

State-of-the-art summarization models still struggle to be factually consistent with the input text. A model-agnostic way to address this problem is post-editing the generated summaries. However, existing approaches typically fail to remove…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Alexander R. Fabbri , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Jesse Vig , Chien-Sheng Wu , Caiming Xiong

The issue of factual consistency in abstractive summarization has received extensive attention in recent years, and the evaluation of factual consistency between summary and document has become an important and urgent task. Most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Yiyang Li , Lei Li , Marina Litvak , Natalia Vanetik , Dingxin Hu , Yuze Li , Yanquan Zhou

As language models are adopted by a more sophisticated and diverse set of users, the importance of guaranteeing that they provide factually correct information supported by verifiable sources is critical across fields of study. This is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitanya Malaviya , Subin Lee , Sihao Chen , Elizabeth Sieber , Mark Yatskar , Dan Roth

We explore question generation in the context of knowledge-grounded dialogs focusing on explainability and evaluation. Inspired by previous work on planning-based summarisation, we present a model which instead of directly generating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Juliette Faille , Quentin Brabant , Gwenole Lecorve , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona , Claire Gardent

Fact tracing seeks to identify specific training examples that serve as the knowledge source for a given query. Existing approaches to fact tracing rely on assessing the similarity between each training sample and the query along a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Si Chen , Feiyang Kang , Ning Yu , Ruoxi Jia

Reasoning over commonsense knowledge bases (CSKB) whose elements are in the form of free-text is an important yet hard task in NLP. While CSKB completion only fills the missing links within the domain of the CSKB, CSKB population is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Sehyun Choi , Shibo Hao , Hongming Zhang , Yangqiu Song , Bin He

The propensity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate hallucinations and non-factual content undermines their reliability in high-stakes domains, where rigorous control over Type I errors (the conditional probability of incorrectly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Fan Nie , Xiaotian Hou , Shuhang Lin , James Zou , Huaxiu Yao , Linjun Zhang

With the development of Semantic Web, entity summarization has become an emerging task to generate concrete summaries for real world entities. To solve this problem, we propose an approach named MPSUM that extends a probabilistic topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Dongjun Wei , Shiyuan Gao , Yaxin Liu , Zhibing Liu , Longtao Hang

Neural knowledge-grounded generative models for dialogue often produce content that is factually inconsistent with the knowledge they rely on, making them unreliable and limiting their applicability. Inspired by recent work on evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Or Honovich , Leshem Choshen , Roee Aharoni , Ella Neeman , Idan Szpektor , Omri Abend

Improving factual consistency in abstractive summarization has been a focus of current research. One promising approach is the post-editing method. However, previous works have yet to make sufficient use of factual factors in summaries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yiyang Li , Lei Li , Dingxin Hu , Xueyi Hao , Marina Litvak , Natalia Vanetik , Yanquan Zhou

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained immense attention due to their notable emergent capabilities, surpassing those seen in earlier language models. A particularly intriguing application of LLMs is their role as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Xue-Yong Fu , Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar , Cheng Chen , Shashi Bhushan TN

Pretrained language models (LMs) are susceptible to generate text with nonfactual information. In this work, we measure and improve the factual accuracy of large-scale LMs for open-ended text generation. We design the FactualityPrompts test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Nayeon Lee , Wei Ping , Peng Xu , Mostofa Patwary , Pascale Fung , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bryan Catanzaro

Large Language Models have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks, but remain prone to generating incorrect or misleading but plausible arguments. This issue, known as hallucination, is particularly concerning in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Ahmad Aghaebrahimian

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attention to the impact of contextual and discourse information. We address two related tasks: (i) detecting check-worthy claims, and (ii) fact-checking claims. We develop…

Large language models (LLMs) can recall a wide range of factual knowledge across languages. However, existing factual recall evaluations primarily assess fact retrieval in isolation, where the queried entity is explicitly named and the fact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yihong Liu , Bingyu Xiong , Hinrich Schütze

LLMs can generate factually incorrect statements even when provided access to reference documents. Such errors can be dangerous in high-stakes applications (e.g., document-grounded QA for healthcare or finance). We present GenAudit -- a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kundan Krishna , Sanjana Ramprasad , Prakhar Gupta , Byron C. Wallace , Zachary C. Lipton , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Knowledge bases (KBs) about notable entities and their properties are an important asset in applications such as search, question answering and dialogue. All popular KBs capture virtually only positive statements, and abstain from taking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hiba Arnaout , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum , Jeff Z. Pan