We propose FACTGRAPH, a method that decomposes the document and the summary into structured meaning representations (MR), which are more suitable for factuality evaluation. MRs describe core semantic concepts and their relations, aggregating the main content in both document and summary in a canonical form, and reducing data sparsity. FACTGRAPH encodes such graphs using a graph encoder augmented with structure-aware adapters to capture interactions among the concepts based on the graph connectivity, along with text representations using an adapter-based text encoder. Experiments on different benchmarks for evaluating factuality show that FACTGRAPH outperforms previous approaches by up to 15%. Furthermore, FACTGRAPH improves performance on identifying content verifiability errors and better captures sub-sentence-level factual inconsistencies.
FactGraph: Evaluating factuality in summarization with semantic graph representations
2022
Last updated May 16, 2023
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