7 papers
Finetuning with Scientific Data Increases Hallucinations: A Multi-domain Factuality Evaluation of LLMs
Raia Abu Ahmad, Nikolas Rauscher, Ekaterina Borisova +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to communicate and explain scientific concepts, yet their tendency to hallucinate poses significant risks in this high stakes use…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims
Raia Abu Ahmad, Max Upravitelev, Aida Usmanova +2
Automatically verifying climate-related claims against scientific literature is a challenging task, complicated by the specialised nature of scholarly evidence and the diversity of…
SciLaD: A Large-Scale, Transparent, Reproducible Dataset for Natural Scientific Language Processing
Luca Foppiano, Sotaro Takeshita, Pedro Ortiz Suarez +6
SciLaD is a novel, large-scale dataset of scientific language constructed entirely using open-source frameworks and publicly available data sources. It comprises a curated English…
Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering
Muhammad Abu Ahmad, Mohamad Ballout, Raia Abu Ahmad +1
This paper presents our submission to the QIAS 2025 shared task on Islamic knowledge understanding and reasoning. We developed a hybrid retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system…
NFDI4DS Shared Tasks for Scholarly Document Processing
Raia Abu Ahmad, Rana Abdulla, Tilahun Abedissa Taffa +18
Shared tasks are powerful tools for advancing research through community-based standardised evaluation. As such, they play a key role in promoting findable, accessible, interoperab…