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New system PageRecall measures accuracy in literature-grounded QA

Researchers have developed PageRecall, a system designed to measure page selection accuracy in literature-grounded question answering. The system found that evidence grounding is primarily limited by the initial retrieval of relevant papers, rather than the model's ability to read and extract information from those papers. Specifically, the page selector identified the correct page only about half the time, while the evidence locating model performed well when given the correct page. The researchers propose showing entire papers to the model to improve performance, as retrieval, not reading, is the bottleneck. AI

IMPACT This research highlights retrieval as a bottleneck in literature-grounded QA, suggesting a shift in focus for developing more effective AI research assistants.

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New system PageRecall measures accuracy in literature-grounded QA

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Aaditya Chauhan ·

    PageRecall: Measuring Page Selection in Literature-Grounded Question Answering

    arXiv:2609.18154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our system for LitTraceQA (GroundLM @ EMNLP 2026): given a research question, retrieve the relevant papers from a pool of 27,487, cite the page and the table or figure where the answer lives, and answer in a requested …

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Aaditya Chauhan ·

    PageRecall: Measuring Page Selection in Literature-Grounded Question Answering

    We describe our system for LitTraceQA (GroundLM @ EMNLP 2026): given a research question, retrieve the relevant papers from a pool of 27,487, cite the page and the table or figure where the answer lives, and answer in a requested format. Our main finding is that evidence groundin…