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Discourse-Driven Evaluation: Unveiling Factual Inconsistency in Long Document Summarization

Computation and Language 2025-02-11 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Detecting factual inconsistency for long document summarization remains challenging, given the complex structure of the source article and long summary length. In this work, we study factual inconsistency errors and connect them with a line of discourse analysis. We find that errors are more common in complex sentences and are associated with several discourse features. We propose a framework that decomposes long texts into discourse-inspired chunks and utilizes discourse information to better aggregate sentence-level scores predicted by natural language inference models. Our approach shows improved performance on top of different model baselines over several evaluation benchmarks, covering rich domains of texts, focusing on long document summarization. This underscores the significance of incorporating discourse features in developing models for scoring summaries for long document factual inconsistency.

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@article{arxiv.2502.06185,
  title  = {Discourse-Driven Evaluation: Unveiling Factual Inconsistency in Long Document Summarization},
  author = {Yang Zhong and Diane Litman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06185},
  year   = {2025}
}

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