Spotting AI’s Touch: Identifying LLM-Paraphrased Spans in Text (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing work focuses on detecting (partially) AI-generated texts, but paraphrasing is commonly employed in various application scenarios for text refinement and diversity. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for paraphrased text span detection that takes in the full text and assigns each sentence with a score indicating the paraphrasing degree. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework can detect paraphrased text spans within a text . it takes in the full text and assigns each sentence with a score indicating the paraphrasing degree. |
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