CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Leveraging Internal and External Knowledge of Large Language Models for Multilingual Hallucination Annotation

Xu Liu, Guanyi Chen


Abstract
We present the system developed by the Central China Normal University (CCNU) team for the Mu-SHROOM shared task, which focuses on identifying hallucinations in question-answering systems across 14 different languages. Our approach leverages multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) with distinct areas of expertise, employing them in parallel to annotate hallucinations, effectively simulating a crowdsourcing annotation process. Furthermore, each LLM-based annotator integrates both internal and external knowledge related to the input during the annotation process. Using the open-source LLM DeepSeek-V3, our system achieves the top ranking (#1) for Hindi data and secures a Top-5 position in seven other languages. In this paper, we also discuss unsuccessful approaches explored during our development process and share key insights gained from participating in this shared task.
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2025.semeval-1.62
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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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448–454
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Xu Liu and Guanyi Chen. 2025. CCNU at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Leveraging Internal and External Knowledge of Large Language Models for Multilingual Hallucination Annotation. In Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2025), pages 448–454, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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