arXiv Computation and Language By Chenyi Tong, Ping Nie, Yu Zhang

CiteAnchor: Source-Aware Grounding for Hallucinated Citation Detection and Resolution

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The paper introduces CiteResolve, a benchmark of 423 real-world hallucinated citations annotated for source recoverability, and CiteAnchor, a source-aware grounding framework that adapts retrieval and field-level verification to each source type. CiteAnchor determines citation validity and whether a unique source can be recovered, achieving 0.841 F1 on an existing detection benchmark and 74.7% end-to-end success on CiteResolve, outperforming baselines by significant margins. The authors provide code and data at their GitHub repository.

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