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Annual reports communicate corporate performance to stakeholders through dense tables and explanatory text, with rich grounding signals making automated reasoning challenging. Existing QA benchmarks focus on retrieval or single-modality reasoning and rarely require justification for answers with both textual and tabular evidence. We introduce ARQA (Annual Report QA), a benchmark of ~2.5K QA pairs spanning ten fiscal years of automotive enterprise annual reports and three reasoning families — Lookup, Arithmetic, and Insight. Data are produced via a planner–generator pipeline, deterministically verified and recomputed, and fully reviewed by domain experts. We evaluate state-of-the-art instruction-tuned language models on ARQA, showing strong factual retrieval but persistent weaknesses in grounded arithmetic and causal reasoning. We release ARQA and its evaluation toolkit to facilitate research on auditable, evidence-first reasoning over enterprise documents. (https://github.com/RuilongWang/ARQA-Benchmark/)

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ARQA: A Benchmark for Grounded Table–Text QA in Enterprise Annual Reports

table–text reasoning

qa benchmark

evidence grounding

financial qa

llms

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In today’s rapidly evolving large language model (LLM) landscape, technology companies such as Cisco face the difficult challenge
of selecting the most suitable model for downstream tasks that demand deep, domain-specific
product knowledge. Specialized benchmarks not only inform this decision making but also
can be leveraged to rapidly create quizzes that can effectively train engineering and marketing
personnel on novel product offerings in a continually growing Cisco product space.
We present Pro-QuEST, our Prompt-chain based Quiz Engine using state-of-the-art LLMs
for generating multiple-choice questions on Specialized Technical products. In Pro-QuEST,
we first identify key terms and topics from a given professional certification textbook or
product guide, and generate a series of multiple-choice questions using domain-knowledge
guided prompts. We show LLM benchmarking results with the question benchmarks generated by Pro-QuEST using a range of latest
open-source, and proprietary LLMs and compare them with expert-created exams and review 
questions to derive insights on their composition and difficulty. Our experiments indicate that though there is room for improvement
in Pro-QuEST to generate questions of the complexity levels seen in expert-designed 
certification exams, question-type based prompts provide a promising direction to address this limitation. In sample user studies with Cisco personnel, Pro-QuEST was received with high optimism for its practical usefulness in quickly
compiling quizzes for self-assessment on knowledge of novel products in the rapidly changing tech sector.

Pro-QuEST: Prompt-chaining Quiz Engine for testing Specialized Technical Product Knowledge

A detailed understanding of the basic properties of text collections produced by humans or generated synthetically is vital for all steps of the natural language processing system life cycle, from training to evaluating model performance and synthetic texts.
To facilitate the analysis of these properties, we introduce elfen, a Python library for efficient linguistic feature extraction for text datasets. It includes the largest set of item-level linguistic features in eleven feature areas: surface-level, POS, lexical richness, readability, named entity, semantic, information-theoretic, emotion, psycholinguistic, dependency, and morphological features. Building on top of popular NLP and modern dataframe libraries, elfen enables feature extraction in various languages ($80$ at the moment) on thousands of items, even given limited computing resources. We show how using elfen enables linguistically informed data selection, outlier detection, and text collection comparison.
We release elfen as an open-source PyPI package, accompanied by extensive documentation, including tutorials. We host the code at https://github.com/mmmaurer/elfen/, make it available through the GESIS Methods Hub at https://methodshub.gesis.org/library/methods/elfen/, and provide documentation and tutorials at https://elfen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. A screencast showcasing elfen is available at https://youtu.be/b4pqHWn6UPU.

elfen: A Python Package for Efficient Linguistic Feature Extraction for Natural Language Datasets

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their proficiency in answering natural language queries. However, their effectiveness is hindered by limited domain-specific knowledge, raising concerns about the reliability of their responses. We introduce a hybrid system that augments LLMs with domain-specific knowledge graphs (KGs), thereby aiming to enhance factual correctness using a KG-based retrieval approach. We focus on a medical KG to demonstrate our methodology, which includes (1) pre-processing, (2) Cypher query generation, (3) Cypher query processing, (4) KG retrieval, and (5) LLM-enhanced response generation. We evaluate our system on a curated dataset of 69 samples, achieving a precision of 78% in retrieving correct KG nodes. Our findings indicate that the hybrid system surpasses a standalone LLM in accuracy and completeness, as verified by an LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation method. This positions the system as a promising tool for applications that demand factual correctness and completeness, such as target identification --- a critical process in pinpointing biological entities for disease treatment or crop enhancement. Moreover, its intuitive search interface and ability to provide accurate responses within seconds make it well-suited for time-sensitive, precision-focused research contexts. We publish the source code together with the dataset and the prompt templates used.

Fact Finder - Enhancing Domain Expertise of Large Language Models by Incorporating Knowledge Graphs

We present ClinicalTrialsHub, an interactive search-focused platform that consolidates all data from ClinicalTrials.gov and augments it by automatically extracting and structuring trial-relevant information from PubMed research articles. Our system effectively increases access to structured clinical trial data by 83.8% compared to relying on ClinicalTrials.gov alone, with potential to make access easier for patients, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers, advancing evidence-based medicine. ClinicalTrialsHub uses large language models such as GPT-5.1 and Gemini-3-Pro to enhance accessibility. The platform automatically parses full-text research articles to extract structured trial information, translates user queries into structured database searches, and provides an attributed question-answering system that generates evidence-grounded answers linked to specific source sentences. We demonstrate its utility through a user study involving clinicians, clinical researchers, and PhD students of pharmaceutical sciences and nursing, and a systematic automatic evaluation of its information extraction and question answering capabilities.

ClinicalTrialsHub: Bridging Registries and Literature for Comprehensive Clinical Trial Access

While large language models (LLMs) excel at generating structured data, such as code, their ability to precisely manipulating it based on instructions remains relatively under-explored. Regular expressions (regexes), critical in practice, are challenging to manipulate. Crucially, the correctness of transformations can be mathematically verified, making them exceptionally well-suited for measuring the symbolic reasoning of LLMs. We introduce Query4Regex, a new benchmark for evaluating verifiable transformations on regexes. Our benchmark tests two query formats: natural language instructions and a program-like domain-specific language (DSL) that specifies the sequence of operations. We evaluate a range of LLMs, verifying semantic correctness through rigorous deterministic finite automata (DFA) equivalence testing. Our empirical studies reveal: 1) the formal DSL significantly outperforms natural language, achieving up to 6.74%p average accuracy gains. 2) Performance for both formats degrades sharply as compositional complexity increases, highlighting a core challenge in multi-step reasoning. 3) Models often generate syntactically valid but semantically incorrect regexes, making errors difficult to detect without formal verification. Query4Regex provides a robust framework for analyzing the gap between LLMs' linguistic fluency and their symbolic reasoning, paving the way for more reliable and verifiable manipulation of formal languages.

Query4Regex: Verifiable Regex Transformation through Formal Operations from NL and DSL Queries

While large language models (LLMs) excel at dialogue, whether they can adequately parse the structure of conversationвЂ”resolve the reply-to relationship between utterances, or attribute roles like speakers and addresseesвЂ”remains underexplored, especially in multimodal settings. To address this, we introduce a suite of tasks for multimodal conversation understanding and release TV-MMPC, a new human-annotated dataset of conversational roles and threading in television dialogue. Our evaluation reveals that while all multimodal LLMs outperform our heuristic baseline, even the best-performing model we consider experiences a substantial drop in performance when character identities of the conversation are anonymized. Beyond evaluation, we carry out a sociolinguistic analysis of 350,842 utterances in TVQA. We find that while female characters initiate conversations at rates in proportion to their speaking time, they are 1.2 times more likely than men to be cast as an addressee or side-participant, and the presence of side-participants shifts the conversational register from personal to social.

Multimodal Conversation Structure Understanding

Turn-taking is a fundamental component of human communication and is signalled through complex cues distributed across lexical, temporal, and prosodic information. Full-duplex models of spoken dialogue integrate these information sources to produce impressive turn-taking behaviour; However, existing evaluations of their turn-taking capabilities do not address which information sources drive their predictions. We present a systematic analysis of the role of lexical-temporal features on the predictability of turn structure by examining PairwiseTurnGPT, a full-duplex model of spoken dialogue transcripts. Through PCA, mixed-effects modelling, and temporal surprisal analysis, we reveal context-dependent patterns: linguistic fluency paradoxically creates overconfidence at intermediate completion points, while turn-shift overlap dominates boundary detection. Our findings uncover where lexical-temporal information suffices and where additional cues become necessary, establishing a deeper understanding of how turn-taking cues are distributed and how to evaluate dialogue systems.

Analysing the role of lexical and temporal information in turn-taking through predictability

AI-text detectors achieve high accuracy on in-domain benchmarks, but often struggle to generalize across different generation conditions such as unseen prompts, model families, or domains. While prior work has reported these generalization gaps, there are limited insights about the underlying causes. In this work, we present a systematic study aimed at explaining generalization behavior through linguistic analysis. We construct a comprehensive benchmark that spans 6 prompting strategies, 7 large language models (LLMs), and 4 domain datasets, resulting in a diverse set of human- and AI-generated texts. Using this dataset, we fine-tune classification-based detectors on various generation settings and evaluate their cross-prompt, cross-model, and cross-dataset generalization. To explain the performance variance, we compute correlations between generalization accuracies and feature shifts of 80 linguistic features between training and test conditions. Our analysis reveals that generalization performance for specific detectors and evaluation conditions is significantly associated with linguistic features such as tense usage and pronoun frequency.

Explaining Generalization of AI-Generated Text Detectors Through Linguistic Analysis

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently confabulate scientific facts, but the mechanisms underlying these failures remain poorly understood. We introduce **Reddit False And Correct Texts** (ReFACT), a benchmark of 1,001 expert-annotated question-answer pairs with **span-level error annotations**, enabling fine-grained analysis of confabulation detection, localization, and correction. Evaluating 9 state-of-the-art LLMs reveals two fundamental limitations. First, models exhibit a dominant **salient distractor** failure mode: 61% of incorrect span predictions are semantically unrelated to actual errors, indicating models fixate on contextually prominent terms rather than true error locations. This pattern persists across model scales (1B to 70B), suggesting scaling alone is insufficient to address this limitation. Second, **comparative judgment** (selecting which of two answers contains factual confabulations) proves fundamentally harder than **independent judgment** (classifying a single answer as confabulated or not). For example, even GPT-4o's Fв‚Ѓ score drops from 0.67 to 0.53 when comparing factual versus confabulated answers side-by-side. This dramatic performance degradation challenges the reliability of LLM-as-Judge paradigms widely adopted in current benchmarks. Code and data are released on [anonymized](https://storage.googleapis.com/dataset-refact/refact-dataset.jsonl).

ReFACT: A Benchmark for Scientific Confabulation Detection with Positional Error Annotations

Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) metrics, such as nDCG, MAP, and MRR, assume that human users sequentially examine documents with diminishing attention to lower ranks. This assumption breaks down in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, where search results are consumed by Large Language Models (LLMs), which, unlike humans, process all retrieved documents as a whole rather than sequentially. Additionally, traditional IR metrics do not account for related but irrelevant documents that actively degrade generation quality, rather than merely being ignored. Due to these two major misalignments, namely human vs. machine position discount and human relevance vs. machine utility, classical IR metrics do not accurately predict RAG performance. We introduce a utility-based annotation schema that quantifies both the positive contribution of relevant passages and the negative impact of distracting ones. Building on this foundation, we propose UDCG (Utility and Distraction-aware Cumulative Gain), a metric using an LLM-oriented positional discount to directly optimize the correlation with the end-to-end answer accuracy. Experiments on five datasets and six LLMs demonstrate that UDCG improves correlation by up to 36\% compared to traditional metrics. Our work provides a critical step toward aligning IR evaluation with LLM consumers and enables more reliable assessment of RAG components.

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