Long-Form Information Alignment Evaluation Beyond Atomic Facts

Information alignment evaluators are vital for various NLG evaluation tasks and trustworthy LLM deployment, reducing hallucinations and enhancing user trust. Current fine-grained methods, like FactScore, verify facts individually but neglect inter-fact dependencies, enabling subtle vulnerabilities. In this work, we introduce MONTAGELIE, a challenging benchmark that constructs deceptive narratives by "montaging" truthful statements without introducing explicit hallucinations. We demonstrate that both coarse-grained LLM-based evaluators and current fine-grained frameworks are susceptible to this attack, with AUC-ROC scores falling below 65%. To enable more robust fine-grained evaluation, we propose DOVESCORE, a novel framework that jointly verifies factual accuracy and event-order consistency. By modeling inter-fact relationships, DOVESCORE outperforms existing finegrained methods by over 8%, providing a more robust solution for long-form text alignment evaluation. Our code and datasets are available at https://github.com/dannalily/DoveScore . -Mike and Amy broke up. -Amy went to movies with John. -Mike hit Amy. Mike hit Amy. Mike and Amy broke up. Amy went to movies with John. Truth Montage Lie Amy went to movies with John. Mike hit Amy. Mike and Amy broke up.