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The Extractive-Abstractive Spectrum: Uncovering Verifiability Trade-offs in LLM Generations

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Pith's one-line read The paper establishes a quantitative trade-off along an extractive-abstractive spectrum of cited LLM generations: perceived utility rises by up to 200%, properly cited sentences fall by up to 50%, and verification time triples.

desk verdict A careful, useful map of the utility-verifiability trade-off with a new operating-point vocabulary, but the 3x time-to-verify headline is confounded by citation count and passage length. read the letter →

arxiv 2411.17375 v1 pith:EIG2C6Q3 submitted 2024-11-26 cs.CL

classification cs.CL
keywords extractive-abstractivespectrumcitationcoverageprecisiontime-to-verifyLLMattributionperceivedutilityhumanevaluationcitedgeneration
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

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The reading

This paper asks whether an information tool can be as useful as an LLM and as verifiable as a search engine at the same time. It argues that these goals sit on one extractive-abstractive spectrum with five named operating points, and that moving toward abstraction trades verifiability for perceived quality in a measurable way. In human evaluations of seven systems on 480 queries drawn from four real-world distributions, perceived utility increases by as much as 200%, the share of properly cited sentences falls by as much as 50%, and users take up to three times longer to verify cited information when generations become more abstractive. The result matters because it tells system builders which operating point fits which application, and it suggests that better citation retrieval alone will not restore verifiability if generations keep getting more abstractive.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the extractive-abstractive spectrum, with five formally specified operating points. In an extractive output, each attributable unit is exactly one source quote; in a quoted generation, claims are word-for-word quoted substrings of the cited quotes; in a paraphrased generation, cited quotes and the sentence carry the same information in both directions; in an entailed generation, the cited quotes entail the sentence but the sentence may drop information and contract reasoning; in an abstractive generation, the sentence may add claims that no cited quote supports. The evaluations use the "According to the source" test for precision and coverage, plus a wall-clock metric, relative time-to-verify, normalized per annotator against quoted-generation times. The spectrum does the argument's work by turning a diffuse worry about citations into a ranked set of user experiences with measurable gaps between adjacent points.

What would settle it

Re-run the same five-operating-point comparison with an independent annotator pool and a single within-subject batch, controlling for the calibration shift the authors observed between their two evaluation batches; if paraphrased generations are not slower to verify than quoted generations, or if Google Gemini's citation coverage does not fall well below the entailed generations' coverage, the claimed monotone trade-off would not reproduce.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the extractive-abstractive spectrum, defined by the semantic relation between a generation and its cited source quotes, organizes the trade-off between answer quality and verifiability. At the extractive end, outputs are source snippets with inherent citations; at the abstractive end, outputs may contain claims that no cited quote supports. The paper defines five operating points along this spectrum—extractive, quoted, paraphrased, entailed, and abstractive—and shows through human ratings of fluency, perceived utility, citation precision, citation coverage, and time-to-verify that abstraction improves perceived utility at the direct expense of verifiability. Deployed post-hoc citation systems fall on the same curve: Google Gemini, despite high perceived utility, properly cites only 15.0% of generated sentences. The paper further argues that no single operating point dominates and recommends matching operating points to the stakes and information needs of the application.

Load-bearing premise

The measured trade-off rests on the assumption that the annotation task, especially wall-clock time spent on the coverage judgment, faithfully captures how real users experience and pay for verification effort.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • High-stakes settings with dispersed information, such as legal research or clinical case review, should target extractive or quoted generations because verification burden matters most there.
  • Low-stakes settings that need recombination or creative reformulation, such as writing assistance or brainstorming, are best served by abstractive generations, where utility gains matter and verifiability costs are acceptable.
  • High-stakes settings that also require style change or logical transformation, such as simplifying medical records or drafting clinical notes, sit in the hardest region; paraphrased and entailed generations are the current compromise, and better entailed implementations are the stated opportunity.
  • Post-hoc citation systems, which cite sources after generation, show the largest precision and coverage losses; grounding a response in pre-selected quotes, the "attribute first, then generate" paradigm, is the more reliable path.
  • Because time-to-verify rises even for properly covered sentences, making cited text more abstractive imposes a cognitive cost that no improvement in citation retrieval alone can remove.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The trade-off implies that "verifiable AI" should be treated partly as a user-interface and cognitive-load design problem, not only as a retrieval or entailment problem; citation metrics that ignore verification time will overstate how verifiable abstractive answers are.
  • The spectrum could extend to non-text outputs, where extractive answers are direct recordings and abstractive answers are synthesized plans; the same ratio between perceived quality and verification cost may appear in image, code, and agentic settings.
  • A testable extension is to measure whether users' ability to detect hallucinations decays along the spectrum exactly as verification time grows, since slower verification may cause users to check fewer citations.
  • As LLMs become more fluent, the frontier may shift outward for perceived utility but not for verifiability, so routing queries to different operating points or mixing operating points within a single response may become necessary for general-purpose assistants.
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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper defines the extractive-abstractive spectrum with five operating points (extractive, quoted, paraphrased, entailed, abstractive), implements reference instantiations of each, and evaluates seven systems in total across four query distributions using human annotators. It reports that as generations become more abstractive, perceived utility rises by as much as 200%, citation coverage falls by as much as 50%, and time-to-verify rises by up to a factor of three. It also presents a user preference survey, a failure analysis, and task-specific recommendations for choosing operating points.

Significance. The study is potentially valuable because it provides a concrete taxonomy and a systematic human evaluation of the utility-verifiability tradeoff, a topic of central importance for deployed LLM systems. The reference implementations are carefully designed: the paraphrased, entailed, and abstractive generations are revisions of the same quoted generation, so the comparisons within the reference family are unusually well controlled. The paper also ships code and human evaluation data, includes a pilot replication, and reports 95% confidence intervals. The strongest empirical contribution is the mapping of deployed systems such as Google Gemini onto the same tradeoff curve. However, the central claim that abstraction itself causes the observed verification-time increase is threatened by confounds in the time-to-verify measurements, and the paper's significance statements are not backed by formal statistical inference. Because the abstractive operating point is defined as permitting uncited claims, the coverage decline at that endpoint is partly definitional; the paper acknowledges this, but the headline wording does not always separate the definitional from the empirical component.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 6.1.4, Table 1, Appendix 13.6.3] The headline claim that users take up to three times as long to verify cited information as outputs become more abstractive is not supported by the current measurements because abstraction is confounded with citation count and cited-passage length. Across systems, citations per cited sentence range from 1.00 (Gemini) to 3.14 (GPT-4+Vertex) in Table 1, and Appendix 13.6.3 states that Gemini citations are presented as roughly 1000-character source spans, whereas the reference operating points use quotes averaging 14.5 words (Section 4.2). The rebuttal in Section 6.1.4 that Gemini has few citations yet high T2V is not decisive, because Gemini also differs in passage length, source presentation, and generation pipeline. The quoted-to-paraphrased contrast is suggestive because citation counts are similar (1.19 vs 1.33), but the headline 3x figure comes from comparisons that also vary in citation count and passage length. Please provide a controlled re-analysis, for example a regression of log T2V on operating point, citation count, total cited-passage character length, and sentence length with annotator random effects, or a comparison restricted to sentences with a single citation of matched length.
  2. [Appendix 13.3] The manuscript itself notes that T2V is measured only for sentences with citations and that 'generations that remain cited at more abstractive OPs are those that are the easiest to cite (and thereby verify)'. This selection effect can bias cross-operating-point T2V comparisons in either direction, and it is not quantified. Because the strongest component of the paper's central claim is that abstraction alone increases verification burden, the authors should address this selection issue directly, for example by modeling the selection step, reporting a sensitivity analysis, or bounding the possible bias. As written, the caveat in Appendix 13.3 undermines the confidence with which the 3x T2V result can be interpreted.
  3. [Section 6.1, Figure 3] Several statements of significance and the headline magnitudes rest on 95% confidence intervals without formal hypothesis tests. For example, Section 6.1.1 claims that the quoted OP 'significantly improves' fluency and utility, Section 6.1.2 claims precision is 'significantly lower' for GPT-4+Vertex and Gemini, and Section 6.1.4 claims the quoted OP 'significantly expedites' verification. These load-bearing comparative claims should be supported with appropriate inferential procedures, such as pairwise tests with multiplicity correction or mixed-effects models with annotator and query random effects. In addition, perceived utility is measured on a three-point ordinal scale, so the '200% increase' should be reported as a difference in means or as a distributional shift rather than a percentage change.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 6.1.1, Figure 3] Because perceived utility is measured on a three-point ordinal scale, the '200% increase' is better expressed as a difference in means or as a shift in the distribution of ratings; percentage changes on an ordinal scale can be misleading.
  2. [Section 8.2.3, Example 8.5] The text states that the 'claim too specific' precision failure is common for entailed generations, but Example 8.5 is labeled as a GPT-4+Vertex generation; please clarify the intended mapping between the failure category and the example.
  3. [Section 13.6.2] The Vertex citation threshold alpha is calibrated separately for each dataset (0.5, 0.25, 0.05, 0.25), and this choice directly affects the number of citations and therefore T2V for the GPT-4+Vertex system; a sensitivity analysis over alpha would help establish that the reported results are not driven by this free parameter.
  4. [Section 13.5.5, Table 10] The claim that annotator noise in precision judgments preserves the ordering of systems would be strengthened by a quantitative sensitivity analysis that removes the flagged false-positive annotations and recomputes the system ordering.
  5. [Section 13.4.2] Only 14 of the 31 original annotators continued into the second batch, and T2V was measured in separate batches for the reference systems and for GPT-4+Vertex/Gemini; the main text should state this as a potential batch-effect limitation even though the quoted condition was re-evaluated for normalization.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged · score 3.0 of 10

Coverage drop for the reference abstractive OP is partly by construction, but utility, T2V, and deployed-system results remain empirically measured; overall circularity is limited.

  1. self definitional [Section 6.1.3 (Citation Coverage Results); cf. Section 4.1 OP definitions and Section 4.2 reference implementations]
    "As expected, coverage drops significantly for the reference abstractive generations—by definition, the abstractive OP contains claims not entailed by cited sources."

    The abstractive OP is defined in Section 4.1 as allowing sentences to 'contain claims that are not cited,' and the reference implementation in Section 4.2 'requests the model to improve the quoted generation by adding additional information,' while citations are selected only from the quotes used in the quoted generation. Therefore, any added claim is necessarily uncited, so the reference abstractive generation's lower citation coverage is guaranteed by the construction. The paper acknowledges this in Section 6.1.3 by saying the drop is 'by definition.' Thus, reporting the reference abstractive coverage decline as an empirical result is a definitional consequence rather than an independently measured finding.

full rationale

The paper's central trade-offs come from human annotations rather than analytical derivation. Stipulating five operating points in Section 4.1 is a taxonomy choice, and the large perceived-utility improvements (about 200%) and time-to-verify increases (up to 3x) are measured on MTurk judgments, so they are not circular. The one partial exception is citation coverage for the reference abstractive OP: because abstractive is defined as permitting uncited claims and the implementation adds information without adding new quotable sources, lower coverage in that specific condition follows by construction, as the paper itself concedes in Section 6.1.3. The 50% coverage decrease in the headline is not solely definitional, since the post-hoc GPT-4+Vertex system and deployed Gemini contribute the lowest measured coverage values. The self-citations to Worledge et al. (2024) supply a prior attribution framework and terminology but are not used as a uniqueness theorem and are not load-bearing for the measured trade-off. Appendix 13.3's acknowledgment that T2V is measured only on cited sentences, with the possible confound that 'generations that remain cited at more abstractive OPs are those that are the easiest to cite (and thereby verify),' is an important validity limitation, but it is a confound rather than circularity. Overall, the derivation is self-contained measurement; the flagged definitional component is real but partial, so the circularity score is modest.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on a taxonomy defined by the authors and on human judgment data. The only numeric free parameter is the Vertex citation threshold calibrated for the GPT-4 + Vertex baseline. The main domain assumptions concern source trustworthiness, the validity of the attribution test, the reliability of API-based sentence filtering, the representativeness of annotators, and the generalizability of the query distributions.

free parameters (1)
  • Vertex citation threshold alpha (per dataset) = NQ 0.5, Eta3G 0.25, 2WikiMH 0.05, MASH 0.25
    Chosen in Section 13.6.2 and Figure 15 to calibrate the average number of citations per sentence from GPT-4 + Vertex to match that of entailed generations. This tuning could affect the measured coverage and T2V of that system, but does not affect the reference operating point results.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Cited sources retrieved from Google are trustworthy and up-to-date within reason.
    Stated in Section 3: 'we assume that cited sources retrieved from Google meet these criteria within reason.' The paper acknowledges this in limitations.
  • domain assumption The attribution test 'According to Qi, ui.' from Rashkin et al. (2022) is a valid criterion for citation support.
    Used to train annotators for precision and coverage in Section 5.1. The validity of this test as a proxy for verifiability is assumed.
  • domain assumption The Vertex API identification of filler sentences that do not require citation is accurate enough for sentence filtering.
    Used to restrict precision, coverage, and T2V to sentences requiring citation in Section 3 and Appendix 13.2. The paper notes the API flags some imperatives, but re-analysis over all sentences shows similar trends.
  • domain assumption The 31 MTurk annotators' judgments and response times are representative of real user verification behavior.
    The human evaluation in Section 5.3 relies on this. Annotation noise in precision is acknowledged in Appendix 13.5.5, but the authors argue ordering is preserved.
  • domain assumption The four query distributions (NQ, Eta3G, 2WikiMH, MASH) are representative of real-world QA settings.
    Used to generalize the trade-offs beyond the specific datasets. The queries reflect web search, style change, multi-hop reasoning, and medical advice, but other domains could behave differently.
invented entities (1)
  • The extractive-abstractive spectrum and its five operating points (extractive, quoted, paraphrased, entailed, abstractive)
    purpose: Provide a conceptual axis and system targets for characterizing the trade-off between generation utility and user verifiability in cited LLM responses.
    These are author-defined categories, not independently measurable phenomena. The paper provides human evaluation data that maps systems onto the spectrum, but the categories themselves are a taxonomy rather than a falsifiable entity. They are useful constructs, not 'gravitons' in the physics sense.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: The Extractive-Abstractive Spectrum: Uncovering Verifiability Trade-offs in LLM Generations},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/EIG2C6Q3}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2411.17375}
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Across all fields of academic study, experts cite their sources when sharing information. While large language models (LLMs) excel at synthesizing information, they do not provide reliable citation to sources, making it difficult to trace and verify the origins of the information they present. In contrast, search engines make sources readily accessible to users and place the burden of synthesizing information on the user. Through a survey, we find that users prefer search engines over LLMs for high-stakes queries, where concerns regarding information provenance outweigh the perceived utility of LLM responses. To examine the interplay between verifiability and utility of information-sharing tools, we introduce the extractive-abstractive spectrum, in which search engines and LLMs are extreme endpoints encapsulating multiple unexplored intermediate operating points. Search engines are extractive because they respond to queries with snippets of sources with links (citations) to the original webpages. LLMs are abstractive because they address queries with answers that synthesize and logically transform relevant information from training and in-context sources without reliable citation. We define five operating points that span the extractive-abstractive spectrum and conduct human evaluations on seven systems across four diverse query distributions that reflect real-world QA settings: web search, language simplification, multi-step reasoning, and medical advice. As outputs become more abstractive, we find that perceived utility improves by as much as 200%, while the proportion of properly cited sentences decreases by as much as 50% and users take up to 3 times as long to verify cited information. Our findings recommend distinct operating points for domain-specific LLM systems and our failure analysis informs approaches to high-utility LLM systems that empower users to verify information.

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Figure 1. (Top left) Survey results from search engine and LLM users regarding the reasons they prefer search engines versus LLMs; [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. We survey 200 individuals evenly stratified over the Gen Z, Millenial, Gen X, and Boomer generations and report results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Human evaluation results averaged over the four query distributions. Fluency and perceived utility increase with abstraction, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Human evaluation results by query distribution. As generations become more abstractive, fluency increases similarly for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Human evaluation results across the four query distributions for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Human evaluation results by query distribution for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: (A) Figure 3 copied for convenience. Over all sentences, relative T2V increases alongside generation abstraction. (B) Over [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Time to verify entire responses by OP, relative to each annotator’s time to verify entire quoted responses. While the results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Pilot human evaluation results averaged over the four query distributions. Similar to the MTurk evaluations, fluency and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_9.png]
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Pilot human evaluation results by query distribution. The MTurk human evaluations reflect the same trends as the pilot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Annotation guidelines provided to annotators throughout the study. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: The annotation interface for rating the utility and fluency of a response. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: The annotation interface for evaluating the coverage of a sentence. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_13.png]
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Figure 14. Figure 14: The annotation interface for evaluating the precision of a sentence. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_14.png]
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Average number of citations from the Vertex API per sentence by Citation Threshold for GPT-4 generations, compared to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: LLM generation efficiency of the generations quantified by the number of inference runs, input tokens, and generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p045_16.png]

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    Runway is a 2010 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Tareque Masud

    "Runway is a 2010 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Tareque Masud"

  31. [40]

    Tareque Masud( 6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist

    "Tareque Masud( 6 December 1956 – 13 August 2011) was a Bangladeshi independent film director, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist" Answer: Box 13.15: Example of the prompt with few-shot examples used to identify the citations for the paraphrased, entailed, and abstractiv...

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    it helps to avoid the things that usually cause one

    "it helps to avoid the things that usually cause one"

  33. [42]

    Eat a balanced diet

    "Eat a balanced diet"

  34. [43]

    Avoid drugs and alcohol

    "Avoid drugs and alcohol"

  35. [44]

    Avoid any foods that have been triggers

    "Avoid any foods that have been triggers." Answer: [4][5][6][7][8] Instruction: Examine the text and numbered quotes below. The text was likely written from one or a few of the quotes. Which of these quotes, if any, could have been used to write the text? It may be none of the...

  36. [45]

    Talk to your pediatrician before giving OTC cold and cough medicines

    "Talk to your pediatrician before giving OTC cold and cough medicines"

  37. [46]

    These medicines should not be given to children under 4 years of age, according to the FDA and the drug makers

    "These medicines should not be given to children under 4 years of age, according to the FDA and the drug makers" Answer: [2] Instruction: Examine the text and numbered quotes below. The text was likely written from one or a few of the quotes. Which of these quotes, if any, cou...

  38. [47]

    The fluid-filled blister keeps the underlying skin clean, which prevents infection and promotes healing

    "The fluid-filled blister keeps the underlying skin clean, which prevents infection and promotes healing"

  39. [48]

    But if you need to pop a blister or it pops by itself: Use a sterilized needle (to sterilize it, put the point or edge in a flame until it is red hot, or rinse it in alcohol)

    "But if you need to pop a blister or it pops by itself: Use a sterilized needle (to sterilize it, put the point or edge in a flame until it is red hot, or rinse it in alcohol)"

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    Wash your hands and the area thoroughly, then make a small hole; the fluid will drain on its own

    "Wash your hands and the area thoroughly, then make a small hole; the fluid will drain on its own" Answer: [2] 87 A PREPRINT Instruction: Examine the text and numbered quotes below. The text was likely written from one or a few of the quotes. Which of these quotes, if any, cou...

  41. [50]

    Use baby acetaminophen (Tylenol) to dull pain

    "Use baby acetaminophen (Tylenol) to dull pain"

  42. [51]

    Do not use ibuprofen unless the baby is at least 6 months old

    "Do not use ibuprofen unless the baby is at least 6 months old" Answer: Box 13.16: Example of the prompt with few-shot examples used to identify the citations for the paraphrased, entailed, and abstractive responses to MASH queries. 88

  43. [2003]

    Response:

    From 1999 to 2002 she worked part-time as a journalist in ’Dagsavisen’ and ’Dagbladet’. She then worked in the Norwegian Red Cross from 2002 to 2004, except for a period from 2003 to 2004 as a journalist in ’Mandag Morgen’. She was hired as a political advisor in the Norwegian...

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