arXiv Machine Learning

Sentence Specificity Scores for Collaborative Technical Documentation: A Domain-Transfer Study

The paper investigates how sentence‑specificity scores can guide the selection of revisions in collaborative technical documentation. It compares two predictors—SpeciTeller and a target‑adapted model by Ko et al.—across Wikipedia and three technical corpora, finding that the predictors rank sentences differently and that SpeciTeller can improve direction‑valid selection rates in certain datasets. The study also shows that filtering and token‑length adjustments alter but do not reconcile these ranking differences.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

In the Blind: Building Pseudo-References for MT Evaluation

arXiv:2609.13611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The WMT26 General MT task evaluates systems on 10 language pairs that have no human references (neither translated from scratch nor post-edited from MT...

By Diptesh Kanojia, Chi-kiu Lo, Archchana Sindhujan, Samuel Larkin, Greg Hanneman, Alon Lavie
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

Pair Difficulty Matters: Rethinking Pairwise LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation and Consistency

Large Language Model judges are commonly used to rank texts via pairwise comparison, with reliability traditionally measured by position bias, transitivity, and pairwise agreement. This paper argues that these proxies are misleading because they are dominated by close‑rank‑gap pairs, which contribute little to the overall ranking, while far‑gap pairs carry the true ranking signal. Experiments on simulations and human‑rated corpora show weak correlation between the proxies and actual ranking accuracy, suggesting judges should be evaluated using rank‑gap‑conditional metrics against human rankings.

By Bruno Brocai, Maria Becker
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Who Annotates in NLP? A Large-scale Assessment of Human Annotation Reporting between 2018 and 2025

arXiv:2606. 02255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human annotation is the empirical foundation of much NLP research, from dataset construction to model evaluation, but papers often leave unclear who produced the annotations and how the annotation process was controlled.

By Maria Kunilovskaya, Gagan Bhatia, Lisa Sophie Albertelli, Yanran Chen, Christian Greisinger, Lotta Kiefer, Christoph Leiter, Subhadeep Roy, Tewodros Achamaleh, Muhammad Arslan Manzoor, Sebastian Pohl, Yufang Hou, Steffen Eger
arXiv AI
Aug 13

A corpus-specific clinical RAG system matches or outperforms newer frontier LLMs on HealthBench

arXiv:2608. 12138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) have recently been reported to match or exceed specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks, but such comparisons draw on a narrow set of systems and on benchmarks developed largely in high-income settings.

By Praveen Reddy, Charuta Mandke, Suvrankar Datta, Sarah Khan, Siddharth Reddy Anthireddy, Shitij Arora, Vishal Singh
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Annotated Surrogate Retrieval for Polish Statutory Law

The paper introduces three retrieval methods for Polish statutory law that use language‑model annotations attached to articles as surrogates. The methods—ASCR, ASCR‑H, and DTF—vary in cost and quality, with ASCR‑H achieving the highest rank‑one accuracy on bar exam questions, while DTF offers competitive performance with lower latency and cost. Extensive evaluation against 14 baselines on 300 exam questions demonstrates significant improvements in head‑rank accuracy and discusses limitations such as coverage asymmetry and negative results for lemmatisation, pseudo‑relevance feedback, and query rewriting.

By Orkun Yi\u{g}it Cengiz
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

Contamination Inflates Scores but Rarely Reorders Large Language Model Leaderboards

The paper investigates how benchmark contamination—leakage of test items into training data—affects large language model (LLM) leaderboards. By comparing original test items with semantically equivalent paraphrases, the authors measure contamination as a violation of anchor-item invariance and find that it inflates absolute scores but rarely changes model rankings. Across 47 public models and 74 finetuned models on four benchmarks, the rank correlation between standard and paraphrase-controlled leaderboards is 0.997, with only a handful of cases showing differential contamination that could alter rankings.

By Xingyao Xiao (Stanford University), Yihong Cheng (City University of Macau)
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

ITL: Interpretable Document Alignment with Structured Reference Frameworks

The paper introduces Intelligent Target Locator (ITL), a method that measures how well a document aligns with concepts in a Structured Reference Document (SRD) by creating concept‑specific term profiles and computing a textual‑unit–concept affinity matrix. ITL assigns importance weights to terms based on concept membership, term specificity, and discriminability, enabling traceable, quantitative alignment scores at multiple granularity levels. An internal consistency test on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals showed that each goal statement achieved its highest affinity with its corresponding concept, demonstrating ITL’s ability to distinguish conceptual profiles.

By Ra\'ul Gir\'aldez, Dayrelis Mena, Jes\'us S. Aguilar--Ruiz
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

Using Human-LLM Disagreement to Improve Checklist-Based Quality Appraisal

arXiv:2608.20385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systematic reviews rely on quality appraisal of included studies, a process that is time-consuming and sensitive to ambiguity in checklist criteria. Al...

By Timo van der Kuil (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Bruno Messina Coimbra (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Mirjam van Zuiden (Clinical Psychology Utrecht University), Robert A. Bagheri (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Rens van de Schoot (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Klaas Dieleman (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Berend Greijn (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Stefan Houkes (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Sebastiaan Rodenhuis (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University), Elizabeth M. Grandfield (Methodology and Statistics Utrecht University)