Advacheck at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Combining NER and RAG to Spot Hallucinations in LLM Answers

Anastasia Voznyuk, German Gritsai, Andrey Grabovoy


Abstract
The Mu-SHROOM competition in the SemEval-2025 Task 3 aims to tackle the problem of detecting spans with hallucinations in texts, generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Our developed system, submitted to this task, is a joint architecture that utilises Named Entity Recognition (NER), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and LLMs to gather, compare and analyse information in the texts provided by organizers. We extract entities potentially capable of containing hallucinations with NER, aggregate relevant topics for them using RAG, then verify and provide a verdict on the extracted information using the LLMs. This approach allowed with a certain level of quality to find hallucinations not only in facts, but misspellings in names and titles, which was not always accepted by human annotators in ground truth markup. We also point out some inconsistencies within annotators spans, that perhaps affected scores of all participants.
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2025.semeval-1.160
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Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Sara Rosenthal, Aiala Rosá, Debanjan Ghosh, Marcos Zampieri
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SemEval | WS
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1204–1210
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Anastasia Voznyuk, German Gritsai, and Andrey Grabovoy. 2025. Advacheck at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Combining NER and RAG to Spot Hallucinations in LLM Answers. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 1204–1210, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Advacheck at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Combining NER and RAG to Spot Hallucinations in LLM Answers (Voznyuk et al., SemEval 2025)
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