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Modern abstractive summarization models often generate summaries that contain hallucinated or contradictory information. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective contrastive learning framework that incorporates recent developments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 I-Chun Chern , Zhiruo Wang , Sanjan Das , Bhavuk Sharma , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires reviewing multiple multimodal documents to assess a claim's truthfulness, which is a highly laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we present a summarization model designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ting-Chih Chen , Chia-Wei Tang , Chris Thomas

While accurately detecting and correcting factual contradictions in language model outputs has become increasingly important as their capabilities improve, doing so is highly challenging. We propose a novel method, FACTTRACK, for tracking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Zhiheng Lyu , Kevin Yang , Lingpeng Kong , Daniel Klein

In this paper, we propose FFCI, a framework for fine-grained summarization evaluation that comprises four elements: faithfulness (degree of factual consistency with the source), focus (precision of summary content relative to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Fajri Koto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

In the summarization domain, a key requirement for summaries is to be factually consistent with the input document. Previous work has found that natural language inference (NLI) models do not perform competitively when applied to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Philippe Laban , Tobias Schnabel , Paul N. Bennett , Marti A. Hearst

Automatic factuality verification of large language model (LLM) generations is becoming more and more widely used to combat hallucinations. A major point of tension in the literature is the granularity of this fact-checking: larger chunks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anisha Gunjal , Greg Durrett

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

Claim verification can be a challenging task. In this paper, we present a method to enhance the robustness and reasoning capabilities of automated claim verification through the extraction of short facts from evidence. Our novel approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Nazanin Jafari , James Allan

We present FAKTA which is a unified framework that integrates various components of a fact checking process: document retrieval from media sources with various types of reliability, stance detection of documents with respect to given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Moin Nadeem , Wei Fang , Brian Xu , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass

The rapid spread of misinformation in the digital era poses significant challenges to public discourse, necessitating robust and scalable fact-checking solutions. Traditional human-led fact-checking methods, while credible, struggle with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tam Trinh , Manh Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

Improving the quality of model-generated summaries, especially factuality, the accuracy of a summary with respect to its source content, remains a challenge. While reranking could select the optimal output from multiple generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Riza Setiawan Soetedjo , Yusuke Sakai , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Jingun Kwon , Manabu Okumura , Taro Watanabe

Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help alleviate this limitation by accelerating evaluation…

While there has been recent progress in abstractive summarization as applied to different domains including news articles, scientific articles, and blog posts, the application of these techniques to clinical text summarization has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Amanuel Alambo , Tanvi Banerjee , Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan , Mia Cajita

Despite the recent advancements in abstractive summarization systems leveraged from large-scale datasets and pre-trained language models, the factual correctness of the summary is still insufficient. One line of trials to mitigate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hwanhee Lee , Cheoneum Park , Seunghyun Yoon , Trung Bui , Franck Dernoncourt , Juae Kim , Kyomin Jung

This paper presents ICAT, an evaluation framework for measuring coverage of diverse factual information in long-form text generation. ICAT breaks down a long output text into a list of atomic claims and not only verifies each claim through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chris Samarinas , Alexander Krubner , Alireza Salemi , Youngwoo Kim , Hamed Zamani

We introduce a general framework for abstractive summarization with factual consistency and distinct modeling of the narrative flow in an output summary. Our work addresses current limitations of models for abstractive summarization that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Saadia Gabriel , Antoine Bosselut , Jeff Da , Ari Holtzman , Jan Buys , Kyle Lo , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi

We present FactPEGASUS, an abstractive summarization model that addresses the problem of factuality during pre-training and fine-tuning: (1) We augment the sentence selection strategy of PEGASUS's (Zhang et al., 2020) pre-training objective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 David Wan , Mohit Bansal

Factual inconsistencies in generated summaries severely limit the practical applications of abstractive dialogue summarization. Although significant progress has been achieved by using pre-trained models, substantial amounts of hallucinated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Xiangru Tang , Arjun Nair , Borui Wang , Bingyao Wang , Jai Desai , Aaron Wade , Haoran Li , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yashar Mehdad , Dragomir Radev

Faithfully correcting factual errors is critical for maintaining the integrity of textual knowledge bases and preventing hallucinations in sequence-to-sequence models. Drawing on humans' ability to identify and correct factual errors, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Heng Ji

The rapid advancement of social media platforms has significantly reduced the cost of information dissemination, yet it has also led to a proliferation of fake news, posing a threat to societal trust and credibility. Most of fake news…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Aohan Li , Jiaxin Chen , Xin Liao , Dengyong Zhang