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SQuAD's answer normalizer can mark a wrong answer correct: three verified hazards

The exact-match and F1 scores in most question-answering and many open-ended LLM evals run every answer through one tiny, famous function first: SQuAD's normalize_answer . It lowercases, strips punctuation, drops the articles a / an / the , and collapses whitespace. It's pure standard library, so y…

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  1. 2026-10-18 04:24 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    SQuAD's answer normalizer can mark a wrong answer correct: three verified hazards

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