Retrieval-based Evaluation for LLMs: A Case Study in Korean Legal QA

Cheol Ryu, Seolhwa Lee, Subeen Pang, Chanyeol Choi, Hojun Choi, Myeonggee Min, Jy-Yong Sohn


Abstract
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in text generation, their utilization in areas requiring domain-specific expertise, such as law, must be approached cautiously. This caution is warranted due to the inherent challenges associated with LLM-generated texts, including the potential presence of factual errors. Motivated by this issue, we propose Eval-RAG, a new evaluation method for LLM-generated texts. Unlike existing methods, Eval-RAG evaluates the validity of generated texts based on the related document that are collected by the retriever. In other words, Eval-RAG adopts the idea of retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the purpose of evaluation. Our experimental results on Korean Legal Question-Answering (QA) tasks show that conventional LLM-based evaluation methods can be better aligned with Lawyers’ evaluations, by combining with Eval-RAG. In addition, our qualitative analysis show that Eval-RAG successfully finds the factual errors in LLM-generated texts, while existing evaluation methods cannot.
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2023.nllp-1.13
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Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Catalina Goanta, Ilias Chalkidis, Leslie Barrett, Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis, Nikolaos Aletras
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NLLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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132–137
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.nllp-1.13
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.nllp-1.13
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Cheol Ryu, Seolhwa Lee, Subeen Pang, Chanyeol Choi, Hojun Choi, Myeonggee Min, and Jy-Yong Sohn. 2023. Retrieval-based Evaluation for LLMs: A Case Study in Korean Legal QA. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023, pages 132–137, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Retrieval-based Evaluation for LLMs: A Case Study in Korean Legal QA (Ryu et al., NLLP-WS 2023)
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