arXiv Computation and Language

The Sum of All Summaries: PROPALIGN for Graded Proposition Salience Evaluation

arXiv AI
Sep 3

Evaluating the Evaluator: Summarization Metrics and LLM-Judges beyond English

The paper introduces BASSE, a multilingual meta‑evaluation dataset containing 2,040 human‑rated abstractive summaries produced manually or by five LLMs with four prompts. Annotators scored each summary on coherence, consistency, fluency, relevance, and 5W1H using a 5‑point Likert scale. Benchmarking shows proprietary LLM‑judge models best align with human judgments, followed by criteria‑specific automatic metrics, while open‑source judge LLMs perform poorly.

By Jeremy Barnes, Naiara Perez, Alba Bonet-Jover, Bego\~na Altuna
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Summarization is Not Dead Yet

arXiv:2606. 08000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The progress of large language models (LLMs) has fueled claims that model-generated summaries rival or even surpass human-written references, raising questions about whether summarization remains an open research problem.

By Dongqi Liu, Chenxi Whitehouse, Zheng Zhao, Zhuchen Cao, Jian Li, Yabiao Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 2

PromptNCE: Conditional Probabilities and PMI Using Only LLMs and Contrastive Estimation Prompts

The paper introduces PromptNCE, a zero‑shot method that uses large language models to estimate pointwise mutual information (PMI) by framing conditional probability estimation as a contrastive task with an explicit OTHER category. The authors benchmark PromptNCE against four other prompting‑based estimators on three human‑annotated datasets, finding that PromptNCE achieves the best conditional probability estimates and Spearman correlations up to 0.78 for full PMI. A case study demonstrates the method’s utility for scoring student knowledge summaries in low‑data settings, and the authors release code and prompts for reproducibility.

By Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

AutoJourn: Multi-Perspective Summarisation, Bias Detection and Bias Neutralisation for LLM-Generated News in Automated Journalism

We present AutoJourn, a demonstration system for multi-perspective news generation and bias-aware evaluation using large language models (LLMs). The system tackles three core challenges in responsible automated journalism: extracting diverse perspectives from unstructured social media discussions, generating summaries that preserve viewpoint diversity, and detecting or mitigating bias in AI-generated news.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Unifying Conformal Language Tasks with In-Context Ensembles

The paper introduces the Conformal Relevance framework, which employs in-context learning example curation and ensembling to generate a score function that preserves coverage while enhancing conciseness for NLP tasks such as summarization and extractive question answering. Unlike previous methods that rely on labor-intensive, task‑specific prompt engineering, this approach requires minimal manual input. The authors validate the framework across seven NLP tasks and provide a theoretical analysis of how diversity in ensembled conformal scores can improve worst‑case sentence scores, including a saturation bound on ensemble gains.

By Xiao Shi Huang, Chen-Yuan Lin, Bruce Kuwahara, Kin Kwan Leung, Jesse C. Cresswell
arXiv AI
Jun 30

ORCA: Open-ended Response Correctness Assessment for Audio Question Answering

arXiv:2512. 09066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable assessment of the abilities of large audio language models (LALMs) is essential to advancing the state of the art.

By \v{S}imon Sedl\'a\v{c}ek, Sara Barahona, Bolaji Yusuf, Laura Herrera-Alarc\'on, Santosh Kesiraju, Cecilia Bola\~nos, Alicia Lozano-Diez, Sathvik Udupa, Fernando L\'opez, Allison Ferner, Ramani Duraiswami, Jan \v{C}ernock\'y
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 3

CARPAS: Towards Content-Aware Refinement of Provided Aspects for Summarization in Large Language Models

The paper introduces CARPAS, a new task that dynamically refines user-provided aspects for aspect-based summarization in large language models (LLMs). It presents three new datasets and evaluates four prompting strategies, finding that LLMs tend to over-generate aspects, leading to overly long and misaligned summaries. To address this, the authors propose a two-stage framework that first generates lightweight scope guidance before aspect refinement and summarization, which improves focus, reduces over-generation, and enhances performance across all datasets.

By Yong-En Tian, Yu-Chien Tang, An-Zi Yen, Wen-Chih Peng