Can Large Language Models Accurately Generate Answer Keys for Health-related Questions? (2025.acl-short)
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| Challenge: | Evaluating the factuality of LLM generated answers is challenging for many tasks, including question answering. |
| Approach: | They propose to use information nuggets to evaluate the factuality of LLM generated answers . they find providing an example and extracting nuggots from an answer is the best approach . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs best when compared to human nugget generation. |
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