SubmissionNumber#=%=#146 FinalPaperTitle#=%=#NootNoot At SemEval-2024 Task 6: Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes Detection ShortPaperTitle#=%=# NumberOfPages#=%=#5 CopyrightSigned#=%=#Sankalp Bahad JobTitle#==# Organization#==# Abstract#==#Semantic hallucinations in neural language gen- eration systems pose a significant challenge to the reliability and accuracy of natural language processing applications. Current neural mod- els often produce fluent but incorrect outputs, undermining the usefulness of generated text. In this study, we address the task of detecting semantic hallucinations through the SHROOM (Semantic Hallucinations Real Or Mistakes) dataset, encompassing data from diverse NLG tasks such as definition modeling, machine translation, and paraphrase generation. We in- vestigate three methodologies: fine-tuning on labelled training data, fine-tuning on labelled validation data, and a zero-shot approach using the Mixtral 8x7b instruct model. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of these method- ologies in identifying semantic hallucinations, with the zero-shot approach showing compet- itive performance without additional training. Our findings highlight the importance of robust detection mechanisms for ensuring the accu- racy and reliability of neural language genera- tion systems. Author{1}{Firstname}#=%=#Sankalp Sanjay Author{1}{Lastname}#=%=#Bahad Author{1}{Username}#=%=#sankalp_bahad Author{1}{Email}#=%=#sankalp.bahad@research.iiit.ac.in Author{1}{Affiliation}#=%=#IIIT Hyderabad Author{2}{Firstname}#=%=#Yash Author{2}{Lastname}#=%=#Bhaskar Author{2}{Email}#=%=#yash.bhaskar@research.iiit.ac.in Author{2}{Affiliation}#=%=#IIIT Hyderabad Author{3}{Firstname}#=%=#Parameswari Author{3}{Lastname}#=%=#Krishnamurthy Author{3}{Username}#=%=#parameswari Author{3}{Email}#=%=#parameshkrishnaa@gmail.com Author{3}{Affiliation}#=%=#Assistant Professor, IIIT Hyderabad ========== èéáğö