AI RESEARCH

PlainQAFact: Retrieval-augmented Factual Consistency Evaluation Metric for Biomedical Plain Language Summarization

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2503.08890v4 Announce Type: replace Hallucinated outputs from large language models (LLMs) pose risks in the medical domain, especially for lay audiences making health-related decisions. Existing automatic factual consistency evaluation methods, such as entailment- and question-answering (QA) -based, struggle with plain language summarization (PLS) due to elaborative explanation phenomenon, which