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On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?

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Dziri, Nouha, Milton, Sivan, Yu, Mo, Zaiane, Osmar, Reddy, Siva·2022·Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Nouha Dziri, Sivan Milton, Mo Yu, Osmar Zaiane, Siva Reddy. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2022.

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Authors
Dziri, N., Milton, S., Yu, M., Zaiane, O., & Reddy, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Alberta (CA)
  • McGill University (CA)
Corresponding author
Dziri, Nouha
Venue
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Published
2022
Pages
5271-5285
OpenAlex
W4287854593
Cited by
121
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 5 · 2015: 1
FWCI
14.38
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
  • Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
Keywords
hallucinations, dialogue model, large language models, data bias, conversational AI

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