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Recent work, using the Biasing Features metric, labels a CoT as unfaithful if it omits a prompt-injected hint that affected the prediction. We argue this metric adopts a narrow notion of faithfulness and confuses unfaithfulness with…

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Traditional metrics like BLEU and BERTScore fail to capture semantic fidelity in generative text-to-text tasks. We adapt the Cross-Examination Framework (CEF) for a reference-free, multi-dimensional evaluation by treating the source and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Tathagata Raha , Clement Christophe , Nada Saadi , Hamza A Javed , Marco AF Pimentel , Ronnie Rajan , Praveenkumar Kanithi

The use of generative AI to create text descriptions from graphs has mostly focused on knowledge graphs, which connect concepts using facts. In this work we explore the capability of large pretrained language models to generate text from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Atharva Phatak , Vijay K. Mago , Ameeta Agrawal , Aravind Inbasekaran , Philippe J. Giabbanelli

Automated chart summarization is crucial for enhancing data accessibility and enabling efficient information extraction from visual data. While recent advances in visual-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promise, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Raymond Choi , Frank Burns , Chase Lawrence

Recent works show that interactive documents connecting text with visualizations facilitate reading comprehension. However, creating this type of content requires specialized knowledge. We present ChartText, a method that links text with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Joao Pinheiro , Jorge Poco

In this paper, we introduce ChatCite, a novel method leveraging large language models (LLMs) for generating comparative literature summaries. The ability to summarize research papers with a focus on key comparisons between studies is an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Fernando Gabriela Garcia , Spencer Burns , Harrison Fuller

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is useful for monitoring language models only when the reasoning trace faithfully reflects the computation that produces the final answer. However, models can rely on prompt-to-answer shortcuts that bypass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jinghan Jia , Joe Benton , Eric Easley

Automatic abstractive summaries are found to often distort or fabricate facts in the article. This inconsistency between summary and original text has seriously impacted its applicability. We propose a fact-aware summarization model FASum…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Chenguang Zhu , William Hinthorn , Ruochen Xu , Qingkai Zeng , Michael Zeng , Xuedong Huang , Meng Jiang

We propose VC-Inspector, a lightweight, open-source large multimodal model (LMM) for reference-free evaluation of video captions, with a focus on factual accuracy. Unlike existing metrics that suffer from limited context handling, weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Tz-Ying Wu , Subarna Tripathi

Reinforcement learning with evaluation metrics as rewards is widely used to enhance specific capabilities of language models. However, for tasks such as factually consistent summarisation, existing metrics remain underdeveloped, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Ye , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Edwin Simpson

In the digital landscape, the ubiquity of data visualizations in media underscores the necessity for accessibility to ensure inclusivity for all users, including those with visual impairments. Current visual content often fails to cater to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Qiang Xu , Thomas Hurtut

Evaluating the compatibility between textual descriptions and corresponding images represents a core endeavor within multi-modal research. In recent years, a proliferation of reference-free methods, leveraging visual-language pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zheng Ma , Changxin Wang , Yawen Ouyang , Fei Zhao , Jianbing Zhang , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen

This research examines the effectiveness of OpenAI's GPT models as independent evaluators of text summaries generated by six transformer-based models from Hugging Face: DistilBART, BERT, ProphetNet, T5, BART, and PEGASUS. We evaluated these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Hassan Shakil , Atqiya Munawara Mahi , Phuoc Nguyen , Zeydy Ortiz , Mamoun T. Mardini

Recent work has shown that inference-time reasoning and reflection can improve text-to-image generation without retraining. However, existing approaches often rely on implicit, holistic critiques or unconstrained prompt rewrites, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 V. Kovalev , A. Kuvshinov , A. Buzovkin , D. Pokidov , D. Timonin

Data visualization in the form of charts plays a pivotal role in data analysis, offering critical insights and aiding in informed decision-making. Automatic chart understanding has witnessed significant advancements with the rise of large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Yi R. Fung , Haoyi Qiu , Mingyang Zhou , Shafiq Joty , Shih-Fu Chang , Heng Ji

Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarisation systems efficiently. Estimating the effectiveness of an automatic evaluation metric, termed meta-evaluation, is a critically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Biaoyan Fang

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

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

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

Meeting summarization with large language models (LLMs) remains error-prone, often producing outputs with hallucinations, omissions, and irrelevancies. We present FRAME, a modular pipeline that reframes summarization as a semantic…

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