On A Scale From 1 to 5: Quantifying Hallucination in Faithfulness Evaluation (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Hallucination is a popular topic in natural language generation (NLG). |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to evaluate faithfulness of guided NLGs by a rubric template and large language inference models to score the generation on quantifiable scales. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can provide accurate judgement and explain whether a source and generation are factually consistent. |
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