Evaluate answer faithfulness against retrieved policy: What evidence gap is most important to resolve before
Correct citations do not ensure faithful conclusions; evaluate whether answers are supported by the passages they cite.
The question
A research administration assistant retrieves policy passages and drafts grant-compliance answers. In testing, it usually cites the correct passage, yet sometimes draws a conclusion the passage does not support. What evidence gap is most important to resolve before approval?
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- Evaluate answer faithfulness against retrieved policy passages. ✓The observed failure concerns unsupported conclusions, so testing whether answers follow retrieved evidence directly addresses the decisive gap.
- Expand the policy corpus with additional historical documents.More documents may improve coverage, but they do not directly test whether generated answers accurately reflect retrieved evidence.
- Measure citation presence across representative questions.Citation presence does not show whether the generated conclusion faithfully follows the cited policy passage.
- Require administrators to approve every draft before release.Human review may reduce consequences, but it does not establish how often or why unsupported conclusions occur.
The trap
When citations are present but conclusions may be wrong, test entailment or faithfulness—not citation frequency alone. How to remember it
Correct citations do not ensure faithful conclusions; evaluate whether answers are supported by the passages they cite.
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