Glossary term
Glossary term
Evaluation and Benchmarks
A metric that answers the following question:
What percentage of the source documents the LLM used to compose its response are actually cited in the response?
For example, if an LLM relied on 20 documents to compose its response but the response only cited 11 of them, then the citation recall would be 0.55.
For example, if an LLM relied on 20 documents to compose its response but the response only cited 11 of them, then the citation recall would be 0.55.
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A legal-tech vendor reports citation recall to confirm its summary cites every clause that supports the conclusion rather than skipping evidence.
A research assistant tool monitors citation recall to ensure no relevant supporting passage is left uncited in the generated answer.
A regulatory compliance tool tracks citation recall on policy explanations so reviewers know all relevant rules are attached to each output.
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