Can We Catch the Elephant? A Survey of the Evolvement of Hallucination Evaluation on Natural Language Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12041v2
• Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:57:20 GMT
• Title: Can We Catch the Elephant? A Survey of the Evolvement of Hallucination Evaluation on Natural Language Generation
• Authors: Siya Qi, Yulan He, Zheng Yuan,
• Abstract summary: The evaluation system for hallucination is complex and diverse, lacking clear organization. This survey aims to help researchers identify current limitations in hallucination evaluation and highlight future research directions.
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• Abstract: Hallucination in Natural Language Generation (NLG) is like the elephant in the room, obvious but often overlooked until recent achievements significantly improved the fluency and grammaticality of generated text. As the capabilities of text generation models have improved, researchers have begun to pay more attention to the phenomenon of hallucination. Despite significant progress in this field in recent years, the evaluation system for hallucination is complex and diverse, lacking clear organization. We are the first to comprehensively survey how various evaluation methods have evolved with the development of text generation models from three dimensions, including hallucinated fact granularity, evaluator design principles, and assessment facets. This survey aims to help researchers identify current limitations in hallucination evaluation and highlight future research directions.

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