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title = "Cohere Labs Community at {F}ood{B}ench-{QA} 2026: The Cake Makes the Ingredients",
author = "Ranjan, Ravi and
Santhosh, Roshan and
Carroll, Lucien",
editor = "Gupta, Deepak and
Thompson, Paul and
Ananiadou, Sophia and
Demner-Fushman, Dina",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing ({CL}4{H}ealth) @ {LREC} 2026",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl4health-1.39/",
doi = "10.63317/4mxctoq6yb8s",
pages = "428--433",
abstract = "People intuitively ask natural language dialogue systems for advice on nutrition and dietary guidelines, but systems based on prompted text generation are susceptible to fabricating details, which could be hazardous to non-specialist users. The FoodBench-QA shared task grounds answers in knowledge bases with linked ontologies, in order to evaluate and mitigate fabrication of nutrition information. Our system treats nutrient estimation and entity linking not as a generative problem (predicting numbers from scratch), but as a retrieval problem. We operate on the hypothesis that for structured data like food composition, finding a ``real'' recipe that is 95{\%} similar is more likely to approximate the correct values than letting the language model fabricate values from sparse context. Our system performed well on food safety labeling from recipe ingredients alone, and it did not benefit from the additional information of recipe titles. In the NER and NEL tasks, our system handled the recipe-focused FCD corpus well, but suffered from poor recall on scientific abstracts and the artificial dataset. These results show the importance of basing information retrieval and question answering in data that is well-matched to the target data."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cohere Labs Community at FoodBench-QA 2026: The Cake Makes the Ingredients
%A Ranjan, Ravi
%A Santhosh, Roshan
%A Carroll, Lucien
%Y Gupta, Deepak
%Y Thompson, Paul
%Y Ananiadou, Sophia
%Y Demner-Fushman, Dina
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC 2026
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
%F ranjan-etal-2026-cohere
%X People intuitively ask natural language dialogue systems for advice on nutrition and dietary guidelines, but systems based on prompted text generation are susceptible to fabricating details, which could be hazardous to non-specialist users. The FoodBench-QA shared task grounds answers in knowledge bases with linked ontologies, in order to evaluate and mitigate fabrication of nutrition information. Our system treats nutrient estimation and entity linking not as a generative problem (predicting numbers from scratch), but as a retrieval problem. We operate on the hypothesis that for structured data like food composition, finding a “real” recipe that is 95% similar is more likely to approximate the correct values than letting the language model fabricate values from sparse context. Our system performed well on food safety labeling from recipe ingredients alone, and it did not benefit from the additional information of recipe titles. In the NER and NEL tasks, our system handled the recipe-focused FCD corpus well, but suffered from poor recall on scientific abstracts and the artificial dataset. These results show the importance of basing information retrieval and question answering in data that is well-matched to the target data.
%R 10.63317/4mxctoq6yb8s
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl4health-1.39/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/4mxctoq6yb8s
%P 428-433
Markdown (Informal)
[Cohere Labs Community at FoodBench-QA 2026: The Cake Makes the Ingredients](https://aclanthology.org/2026.cl4health-1.39/) (Ranjan et al., CL4Health 2026)
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