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NewsInterview: a Dataset and a Playground to Evaluate LLMs’ Grounding Gap via Informational Interviews (2025.acl-long)
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Alexander Spangher, Michael Lu, Sriya Kalyan, Hyundong Justin Cho, Tenghao Huang, Weiyan Shi, Jonathan May
| Challenge: | Existing large datasets (1k-10k transcripts) are generated via crowdsourcing and are inherently unnatural. |
| Approach: | They curate a dataset of 40,000 two-person informational interviews from NPR and CNN . they find that LLMs are significantly less likely than human interviewers to use acknowledgements and pivot to higher-level questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on 40,000 interviews with journalists and CNN . |