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Abstractive summarization systems leveraging pre-training language models have achieved superior results on benchmark datasets. However, such models have been shown to be more prone to hallucinate facts that are unfaithful to the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Haopeng Zhang , Semih Yavuz , Wojciech Kryscinski , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou

Despite significant progress, state-of-the-art abstractive summarization methods are still prone to hallucinate content inconsistent with the source document. In this paper, we propose Constrained Abstractive Summarization (CAS), a general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren , Heng Ji , Jiawei Han

Evaluating the factuality of long-form text generated by large language models (LMs) is non-trivial because (1) generations often contain a mixture of supported and unsupported pieces of information, making binary judgments of quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Sewon Min , Kalpesh Krishna , Xinxi Lyu , Mike Lewis , Wen-tau Yih , Pang Wei Koh , Mohit Iyyer , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

The rise of disinformation on social media, especially through the strategic manipulation or repurposing of images, paired with provocative text, presents a complex challenge for traditional fact-checking methods. In this paper, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Arka Ujjal Dey , Artemis Llabrés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

In this paper, facts existing in different domains are explored, which are comparable by their end result. Properties of various domains and the facts that are part of such a unit are also presented, examples of comparison and methods of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kirti Chawla

The demand for accurate and efficient verification of information in texts generated by large language models (LMs) is at an all-time high, but remains unresolved. Recent efforts have focused on extracting and verifying atomic facts from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Vasileios Katranidis , Gabor Barany

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to produce hallucinations - factually incorrect or fabricated information - which poses significant challenges for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as dialogue systems. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xiangyan Chen , Yufeng Li , Yujian Gan , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Matthew Purver

Fighting misinformation is a challenging, yet crucial, task. Despite the growing number of experts being involved in manual fact-checking, this activity is time-consuming and cannot keep up with the ever-increasing amount of Fake News…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniel Russo , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

Despite the success achieved in neural abstractive summarization based on pre-trained language models, one unresolved issue is that the generated summaries are not always faithful to the input document. There are two possible causes of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Xiuying Chen , Mingzhe Li , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

Monitoring network traffic data to detect any hidden patterns of anomalies is a challenging and time-consuming task that requires high computing resources. To this end, an appropriate summarization technique is of great importance, where it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Samira Ghodratnama , Mehrdad Zakershahrak , Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

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

Abstractive summarization systems today produce fluent and relevant output, but often "hallucinate" statements not supported by the source text. We analyze the connection between hallucinations and training data, and find evidence that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Daniel King , Zejiang Shen , Nishant Subramani , Daniel S. Weld , Iz Beltagy , Doug Downey

Fuzzy logic deals with degrees of truth. In this paper, we have shown how to apply fuzzy logic in text mining in order to perform document clustering. We took an example of document clustering where the documents had to be clustered into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Sumit Goswami , Mayank Singh Shishodia

Fact-checking plays a crucial role in combating misinformation. Existing methods using large language models (LLMs) for claim decomposition face two key limitations: (1) insufficient decomposition, introducing unnecessary complexity to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yani Huang , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie , Junfan Chen , Xuefeng Zhang

Abstractive summarization has made tremendous progress in recent years. In this work, we perform fine-grained human annotations to evaluate long document abstractive summarization systems (i.e., models and metrics) with the aim of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , He Zhang , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

Detecting factual inconsistencies in summarization is critical, yet existing benchmarks lack the necessary challenge and interpretability for robust evaluation. In this paper, we introduce SummExecEdit, a novel pipeline and benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Onkar Thorat , Philippe Laban , Chien-Sheng Wu

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. Difficulties lie in assessing the factuality of free-form responses in open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Hasan Iqbal , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Preslav Nakov

A fundamental problem in data fusion is to determine the veracity of multi-source data in order to resolve conflicts. While previous work in truth discovery has proved to be useful in practice for specific settings, sources' behavior or…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-24 Dalia Attia Waguih , Laure Berti-Equille

Long documents such as academic articles and business reports have been the standard format to detail out important issues and complicated subjects that require extra attention. An automatic summarization system that can effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Huan Yee Koh , Jiaxin Ju , Ming Liu , Shirui Pan

We study the fact checking problem, which aims to identify the veracity of a given claim. Specifically, we focus on the task of Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) and its accompanied dataset. The task consists of the subtasks of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Giannis Bekoulis , Christina Papagiannopoulou , Nikos Deligiannis