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New system PageRecall measures page selection in literature-grounded QA

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Researchers have developed a system called PageRecall to measure how effectively question-answering models select relevant pages from research papers. The system found that evidence grounding is limited by retrieval rather than the model's reading capabilities. Specifically, the page selection model only identified the correct page about half the time, and when it failed to find the right page, it often did so silently by returning incorrect information or nothing at all. To address this, the researchers propose showing entire papers within the model's context, which improved gold-page recall to 100% for parsable papers. AI

IMPACT This research highlights limitations in current retrieval systems for grounded QA, suggesting a shift towards full-context processing for improved accuracy.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new research paper detailing a novel system and its findings. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New system PageRecall measures page selection 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…

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