Identifying Factual Inconsistencies in Summaries: Grounding LLM Inference via Task Taxonomy (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have focused on specialized BERT-variants and recent LLMs to reason inconsistencies. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate task-specific taxonomy into inferences to facilitate both zero-shot and supervised paradigms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms specialized non-LLM and recent LLM models in a number of domains. |
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