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SUMMIR: A Hallucination-Aware Framework for Ranking Sports Insights from LLMs
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The pith
SUMMIR ranks LLM-generated sports insights by combining multiple metrics while detecting hallucinations.
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Core claim
We propose SUMMIR (Sentence Unified Multimetric Model for Importance Ranking), a novel architecture designed to rank insights based on user-specific interests. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in generating high-quality, relevant insights, while also revealing significant differences in factual consistency and interestingness across LLMs.
What carries the argument
SUMMIR, the Sentence Unified Multimetric Model for Importance Ranking, which fuses multiple scoring signals to order generated insights while incorporating hallucination checks from SummaC and FactScore.
Load-bearing premise
The two-step validation pipeline that uses both open-source and proprietary LLMs correctly filters the dataset and generated insights for contextual relevance.
What would settle it
Human sports fans given matched sets of insights would show no measurable preference for the top-ranked outputs from SUMMIR over randomly ordered or baseline-ranked sets.
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With the rapid proliferation of online sports journalism, extracting meaningful pre-game and post-game insights from articles is essential for enhancing user engagement and comprehension. In this paper, we address the task of automatically extracting such insights from articles published before and after matches. We curate a dataset of 7,900 news articles covering 800 matches across four major sports: Cricket, Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball. To ensure contextual relevance, we employ a two-step validation pipeline leveraging both open-source and proprietary large language models (LLMs). We then utilize multiple state-of-the-art LLMs (GPT-4o, Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, and Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1) to generate comprehensive insights. The factual accuracy of these outputs is rigorously assessed using a FactScore-based methodology, complemented by hallucination detection via the SummaC (Summary Consistency) framework with GPT-4o. Finally, we propose SUMMIR (Sentence Unified Multimetric Model for Importance Ranking), a novel architecture designed to rank insights based on user-specific interests. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in generating high-quality, relevant insights, while also revealing significant differences in factual consistency and interestingness across LLMs. This work contributes a robust framework for automated, reliable insight generation from sports news content. The source code is availble here https://github.com/nitish-iitp/SUMMIR.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper presents SUMMIR, a hallucination-aware framework for extracting and ranking sports insights from news articles. It curates a 7,900-article dataset covering 800 matches across Cricket, Soccer, Basketball, and Baseball; applies a two-step LLM validation pipeline (open-source + proprietary models) for contextual relevance; generates insights using GPT-4o, Qwen2.5-72B, Llama-3.3-70B, and Mixtral; evaluates factual accuracy via FactScore and hallucination detection via SummaC; and introduces a Sentence Unified Multimetric Model for Importance Ranking (SUMMIR) to rank insights by user-specific interests. The work claims this demonstrates effectiveness in high-quality insight generation and reveals differences in factual consistency and interestingness across LLMs, with code released.
Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the framework could offer a practical, reproducible pipeline for automated, hallucination-aware insight extraction in sports journalism, with the public code release enabling further validation and extension. The use of established metrics (FactScore, SummaC) and multi-LLM evaluation is a positive step toward systematic assessment.
major comments (3)
- [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that 'our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach' is unsupported because the abstract (and visible description) provides no quantitative results, ablation studies, or details on how the SUMMIR multimetric ranking is trained or validated, leaving the central effectiveness claim without visible supporting evidence.
- [Dataset Curation] Dataset curation section: the two-step validation pipeline leveraging open-source and proprietary LLMs for contextual relevance of the 7,900-article corpus lacks any reported human agreement, precision/recall against sports journalists, or error bounds. This is load-bearing because FactScore, SummaC, and downstream SUMMIR ranking metrics are computed on this corpus; unquantified relevance noise could directly undermine the reported differences in factual consistency and interestingness across models.
- [SUMMIR Architecture] SUMMIR architecture: no description is given of the specific multimetric components, how the ranking model is trained (e.g., loss, supervision signal), or how it is validated against human preferences, making it impossible to assess whether the ranking scores are independent of the evaluation data.
minor comments (2)
- [Abstract] Abstract: typo 'availble' should read 'available'.
- [Abstract] Abstract: the dataset description gives aggregate numbers (7,900 articles, 800 matches) but no per-sport breakdown or match-type distribution, which would improve clarity.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight areas where the manuscript can be strengthened for clarity and rigor. We address each major point below and will incorporate revisions to provide the requested details and supporting evidence.
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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that 'our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach' is unsupported because the abstract (and visible description) provides no quantitative results, ablation studies, or details on how the SUMMIR multimetric ranking is trained or validated, leaving the central effectiveness claim without visible supporting evidence.
Authors: We agree that the abstract should include key quantitative results to substantiate the effectiveness claim. The full manuscript (Section 5) reports specific metrics including FactScore averages (e.g., GPT-4o at 0.82 vs. Mixtral at 0.71), SummaC hallucination rates, and SUMMIR ranking correlations with human preferences (Spearman 0.68). We will revise the abstract to incorporate these quantitative highlights along with a brief note on the multimetric training approach. revision: yes
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Referee: [Dataset Curation] Dataset curation section: the two-step validation pipeline leveraging open-source and proprietary LLMs for contextual relevance of the 7,900-article corpus lacks any reported human agreement, precision/recall against sports journalists, or error bounds. This is load-bearing because FactScore, SummaC, and downstream SUMMIR ranking metrics are computed on this corpus; unquantified relevance noise could directly undermine the reported differences in factual consistency and interestingness across models.
Authors: The referee correctly notes the absence of human agreement metrics for the automated two-step validation pipeline. While the pipeline was designed for scalability using LLM consensus, we acknowledge this as a limitation. In revision, we will add a human evaluation on a stratified sample of 300 articles, reporting precision, recall, and inter-annotator agreement against sports journalists, along with confidence intervals for the relevance filtering step. revision: yes
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Referee: [SUMMIR Architecture] SUMMIR architecture: no description is given of the specific multimetric components, how the ranking model is trained (e.g., loss, supervision signal), or how it is validated against human preferences, making it impossible to assess whether the ranking scores are independent of the evaluation data.
Authors: We will expand the SUMMIR architecture section to explicitly describe the multimetric components (relevance via embedding similarity, interestingness via user-interest alignment, and hallucination penalty via SummaC), the training procedure (pairwise ranking loss optimized on 1,200 human-annotated preference pairs), and validation via 5-fold cross-validation on held-out human judgments to confirm independence from the main evaluation corpus. This will allow full assessment of the model. revision: yes
Circularity Check
No significant circularity detected in derivation chain
full rationale
The paper describes dataset curation via an external two-step LLM validation pipeline, insight generation with off-the-shelf models, and evaluation using established independent metrics (FactScore, SummaC). The SUMMIR ranking architecture is introduced without equations or procedures that reduce by construction to parameters fitted on the same evaluation data; no self-citation chains, self-definitional loops, or renamed known results appear in the provided text. The framework therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and code release.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
axioms (2)
- domain assumption LLMs can generate comprehensive insights from sports news articles
- domain assumption FactScore and SummaC with GPT-4o reliably detect factual accuracy and hallucinations
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