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Main Authors: Kostiuk, Yevhen, Vitman, Oxana, Gagała, Łukasz, Kiulian, Artur
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09164
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author Kostiuk, Yevhen
Vitman, Oxana
Gagała, Łukasz
Kiulian, Artur
author_facet Kostiuk, Yevhen
Vitman, Oxana
Gagała, Łukasz
Kiulian, Artur
contents In this work, we address the challenge of evaluating large language models (LLMs) on the short answer matching task for Latvian and Lithuanian languages. We introduce novel datasets consisting of 502 Latvian and 690 Lithuanian question-answer pairs. For each question-answer pair, we generated matched and non-matched answers using a set of alteration rules specifically designed to introduce small but meaningful changes in the text. These generated answers serve as test cases to assess the ability of LLMs to detect subtle differences in matching of the original answers. A subset of the datasets was manually verified for quality and accuracy. Our results show that while larger LLMs, such as QWEN2.5 72b and LLaMa3.1 70b, demonstrate near-perfect performance in distinguishing matched and non-matched answers, smaller models show more variance. For instance, LLaMa3.1 8b and EuroLLM 9b benefited from few-shot examples, while Mistral Nemo 12b underperformed on detection of subtle text alteration, particularly in Lithuanian, even with additional examples. QWEN2.5 7b and Mistral 7b were able to obtain a strong and comparable performance to the larger 70b models in zero and few shot experiments. Moreover, the performance of Mistral 7b was weaker in few shot experiments.
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spellingShingle The Veln(ia)s is in the Details: Evaluating LLM Judgment on Latvian and Lithuanian Short Answer Matching
Kostiuk, Yevhen
Vitman, Oxana
Gagała, Łukasz
Kiulian, Artur
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
In this work, we address the challenge of evaluating large language models (LLMs) on the short answer matching task for Latvian and Lithuanian languages. We introduce novel datasets consisting of 502 Latvian and 690 Lithuanian question-answer pairs. For each question-answer pair, we generated matched and non-matched answers using a set of alteration rules specifically designed to introduce small but meaningful changes in the text. These generated answers serve as test cases to assess the ability of LLMs to detect subtle differences in matching of the original answers. A subset of the datasets was manually verified for quality and accuracy. Our results show that while larger LLMs, such as QWEN2.5 72b and LLaMa3.1 70b, demonstrate near-perfect performance in distinguishing matched and non-matched answers, smaller models show more variance. For instance, LLaMa3.1 8b and EuroLLM 9b benefited from few-shot examples, while Mistral Nemo 12b underperformed on detection of subtle text alteration, particularly in Lithuanian, even with additional examples. QWEN2.5 7b and Mistral 7b were able to obtain a strong and comparable performance to the larger 70b models in zero and few shot experiments. Moreover, the performance of Mistral 7b was weaker in few shot experiments.
title The Veln(ia)s is in the Details: Evaluating LLM Judgment on Latvian and Lithuanian Short Answer Matching
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09164