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We contribute the largest publicly available dataset of naturally occurring factual claims for the purpose of automatic claim verification. It is collected from 26 fact checking websites in English, paired with textual sources and rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Isabelle Augenstein , Christina Lioma , Dongsheng Wang , Lucas Chaves Lima , Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Jakob Grue Simonsen

Fact-checking long-form text is challenging, and it is therefore common practice to break it down into multiple atomic claims. The typical approach to fact-checking these atomic claims involves retrieving a fixed number of pieces of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhuohan Xie , Rui Xing , Yuxia Wang , Jiahui Geng , Hasan Iqbal , Dhruv Sahnan , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for automatic tools to check the factual accuracy of their outputs, as LLMs often hallucinate. This is difficult as it requires assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hasan Iqbal , Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

In fact-checking applications, a common reason to reject a claim is to detect the presence of erroneous cause-effect relationships between the events at play. However, current automated fact-checking methods lack dedicated causal-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Youssra Rebboud , Pasquale Lisena , Raphael Troncy

We study the fact checking problem, which aims to identify the veracity of a given claim. Specifically, we focus on the task of Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) and its accompanied dataset. The task consists of the subtasks of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Giannis Bekoulis , Christina Papagiannopoulou , Nikos Deligiannis

In this highly digitised world, fake news is a challenging problem that can cause serious harm to society. Considering how fast fake news can spread, automated methods, tools and services for assisting users to do fact-checking (i.e., fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Enes Altuncu , Jason R. C. Nurse , Meryem Bagriacik , Sophie Kaleba , Haiyue Yuan , Lisa Bonheme , Shujun Li

The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians and other key players enjoy direct access to their audiences…

With the widespread consumption of AI-generated content, there has been an increased focus on developing automated tools to verify the factual accuracy of such content. However, prior research and tools developed for fact verification treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Varich Boonsanong , Vidhisha Balachandran , Xiaochuang Han , Shangbin Feng , Lucy Lu Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov

Currently used metrics for assessing summarization algorithms do not account for whether summaries are factually consistent with source documents. We propose a weakly-supervised, model-based approach for verifying factual consistency and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Wojciech Kryściński , Bryan McCann , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

The task of fact-checking deals with assessing the veracity of factual claims based on credible evidence and background knowledge. In particular, scientific fact-checking is the variation of the task concerned with verifying claims rooted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

Automated fact-checking is often presented as an epistemic tool that fact-checkers, social media consumers, and other stakeholders can use to fight misinformation. Nevertheless, few papers thoroughly discuss how. We document this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Michael Schlichtkrull , Nedjma Ousidhoum , Andreas Vlachos

Automated fact-checking has drawn considerable attention over the past few decades due to the increase in the diffusion of misinformation on online platforms. This is often carried out as a sequence of tasks comprising (i) the detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

With the explosive growth of scientific publications, making the synthesis of scientific knowledge and fact checking becomes an increasingly complex task. In this paper, we propose a multi-task approach for verifying the scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Loïc Rakotoson , Charles Letaillieur , Sylvain Massip , Fréjus Laleye

In the modern era, abundant information is easily accessible from various sources, however only a few of these sources are reliable as they mostly contain unverified contents. We develop a system to validate the truthfulness of a given…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Papis Wongchaisuwat , Diego Klabjan

Despite the recent advances in abstractive summarization systems, it is still difficult to determine whether a generated summary is factual consistent with the source text. To this end, the latest approach is to train a factual consistency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Hwanhee Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Joonsuk Park , Hwaran Lee , Kyomin Jung

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires reviewing multiple multimodal documents to assess a claim's truthfulness, which is a highly laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we present a summarization model designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ting-Chih Chen , Chia-Wei Tang , Chris Thomas

Automated Fact-Checking has largely focused on verifying general knowledge against static corpora, overlooking high-stakes domains like law where truth is evolving and technically complex. We introduce CaseFacts, a benchmark for verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

Fact verification (FV) aims to assess the veracity of a claim based on relevant evidence. The traditional approach for automated FV includes a three-part pipeline relying on short evidence snippets and encoder-only inference models. More…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Juraj Vladika , Ivana Hacajová , Florian Matthes

As the first step of automatic fact checking, claim check-worthiness detection is a critical component of fact checking systems. There are multiple lines of research which study this problem: check-worthiness ranking from political speeches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Dustin Wright , Isabelle Augenstein

In this work, we introduce X-FACT: the largest publicly available multilingual dataset for factual verification of naturally existing real-world claims. The dataset contains short statements in 25 languages and is labeled for veracity by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ashim Gupta , Vivek Srikumar