MixRevDetect: Towards Detecting AI-Generated Content in Hybrid Peer Reviews.

Sandeep Kumar, Samarth Garg, Sagnik Sengupta, Tirthankar Ghosal, Asif Ekbal


Abstract
The growing use of large language models (LLMs) in academic peer review poses significant challenges, particularly in distinguishing AI-generated content from human-written feedback. This research addresses the problem of identifying AI-generated peer review comments, which are crucial to maintaining the integrity of scholarly evaluation. Prior research has primarily focused on generic AI-generated text detection or on estimating the fraction of peer reviews that may be AI-generated, often treating reviews as monolithic units. However, these methods fail to detect finer-grained AI-generated points within mixed-authorship reviews. To address this gap, we propose MixRevDetect, a novel method to identify AI-generated points in peer reviews. Our approach achieved an F1 score of 88.86%, significantly outperforming existing AI text detection methods.
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2025.naacl-short.79
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers)
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April
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Luis Chiruzzo, Alan Ritter, Lu Wang
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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944–953
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10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.79
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Sandeep Kumar, Samarth Garg, Sagnik Sengupta, Tirthankar Ghosal, and Asif Ekbal. 2025. MixRevDetect: Towards Detecting AI-Generated Content in Hybrid Peer Reviews.. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 944–953, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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MixRevDetect: Towards Detecting AI-Generated Content in Hybrid Peer Reviews. (Kumar et al., NAACL 2025)
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