An Empirical Analysis of Factual Errors in Human-Written Text and its Application

arXiv:2606.27959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Factual Error Detection (FED), which is the task of identifying factually incorrect spans in a given text, has long been recognized as an important research problem. However, with the rapid rise of large language models (LLMs), research attention has shifted toward factual errors specific to LLM-generated text (hallucinations) and their detection. As a result, the detection of factual errors in human-written text has been relatively neglected. To a...