提出结构化方法提升长文本召回评估准确性
LongRecall: A Structured Approach for Robust Recall Evaluation in Long-Form Text
- 分三步分解答案为独立事实,逐层筛选匹配项
- 相比传统方法,错误率显著降低,召回准确率更高
- 适合医疗、法律等对信息完整性要求高的场景
机器生成文本的完整性在医学、法律等领域及基于列表的问答任务中至关重要,遗漏可能造成严重后果。现有召回指标多依赖词汇重合,易产生误判;而基于大模型评分的长篇提示方法虽捕捉语义更广,但缺乏结构化验证,仍存在偏差和幻觉问题。本文提出LongRecall,一种通用的三阶段召回评估框架:将答案拆分为自包含事实,通过词汇与语义过滤逐步缩小候选范围,并以结构化蕴含检查验证匹配一致性。该设计有效减少假阳性与假阴性,适应多种表述和上下文变化,可作为系统化召回评估的基础。我们在三个挑战性长文本问答基准上,结合人工标注与大模型裁判进行评估,结果表明其在召回准确性上显著优于强基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LongRecall. The completeness of machine-generated text, ensuring that it captures all relevant information, is crucial in domains such as medicine and law and in tasks like list-based question answering (QA), where omissions can have serious consequences. However, existing recall metrics often depend on lexical overlap, leading to errors with unsubstantiated entities and paraphrased answers, while LLM-as-a-Judge methods with long holistic prompts capture broader semantics but remain prone to misalignment and hallucinations without structured verification. We introduce LongRecall, a general three-stage recall evaluation framework that decomposes answers into self-contained facts, successively narrows plausible candidate matches through lexical and semantic filtering, and verifies their alignment through structured entailment checks. This design reduces false positives and false negatives while accommodating diverse phrasings and contextual variations, serving as a foundational building block for systematic recall assessment. We evaluate LongRecall on three challenging long-form QA benchmarks using both human annotations and LLM-based judges, demonstrating substantial improvements in recall accuracy over strong lexical and LLM-as-a-Judge baselines.
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