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Automated fact-checking has been a challenging task for the research community. Prior work has explored various strategies, such as end-to-end training, retrieval-augmented generation, and prompt engineering, to build robust fact-checking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Gaurav Kumar , Ayush Garg , Debajyoti Mazumder , Aditya Kishore , Babu kumar , Jasabanta Patro

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

Automating the fact checking (FC) process relies on information obtained from external sources. In this work, we posit that it is crucial for FC models to make veracity predictions only when there is sufficient evidence and otherwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Pepa Atanasova , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma , Isabelle Augenstein

In recent years, algorithms have been incorporated into fact-checking pipelines. They are used not only to flag previously fact-checked misinformation, but also to provide suggestions about which trending claims should be prioritized for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Terrence Neumann , Nicholas Wolczynski

Widespread and rapid dissemination of false news has made fact-checking an indispensable requirement. Given its time-consuming and labor-intensive nature, the task calls for an automated support to meet the demand. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Ipek Baris Schlicht , Erhan Sezerer , Selma Tekir , Oul Han , Zeyd Boukhers

We introduce 'FactCheck Editor', an advanced text editor designed to automate fact-checking and correct factual inaccuracies. Given the widespread issue of misinformation, often a result of unintentional mistakes by content creators, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Vinay Setty

Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems are intended to convey information that is based on evidence provided in a given source text. We discuss the challenges of training a generative neural dialogue model for such systems that is controlled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Hannah Rashkin , David Reitter , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Dipanjan Das

In our world with full of uncertainty, debates and argumentation contribute to the progress of science and society. Despite of the increasing attention to characterize human arguments, most progress made so far focus on the debate outcome,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jichuan Zeng , Jing Li , Yulan He , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu , Irwin King

Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yibing Du , Antoine Bosselut , Christopher D. Manning

The emergence of "Fake News" and misinformation via online news and social media has spurred an interest in computational tools to combat this phenomenon. In this paper we present a new "Related Fact Checks" service, which can help a reader…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Sreya Guha

Engaging in a live debate requires, among other things, the ability to effectively rebut arguments claimed by your opponent. In particular, this requires identifying these arguments. Here, we suggest doing so by automatically mining claims…

Large language models (LLMs) have raised hopes for automated end-to-end fact-checking, but prior studies report mixed results. As mainstream chatbots increasingly ship with reasoning capabilities and web search tools -- and millions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Matthew R. DeVerna , Kai-Cheng Yang , Harry Yaojun Yan , Filippo Menczer

The advances in digital tools have led to the rampant spread of misinformation. While fact-checking aims to combat this, manual fact-checking is cumbersome and not scalable. It is essential for automated fact-checking to be efficient for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kevin Nanekhan , Venktesh V , Erik Martin , Henrik Vatndal , Vinay Setty , Avishek Anand

Judging the veracity of a sentence making one or more claims is an important and challenging problem with many dimensions. The recent FEVER task asked participants to classify input sentences as either SUPPORTED, REFUTED or NotEnoughInfo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Padia , Francis Ferraro , Tim Finin

Fact-checking systems have become important tools to verify fake and misguiding news. These systems become more trustworthy when human-readable explanations accompany the veracity labels. However, manual collection of such explanations is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Shailza Jolly , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

We propose a multi-task deep-learning approach for estimating the check-worthiness of claims in political debates. Given a political debate, such as the 2016 US Presidential and Vice-Presidential ones, the task is to predict which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Slavena Vasileva , Pepa Atanasova , Lluís Màrquez , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Preslav Nakov

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires collecting multiple pieces of evidence and applying complex multi-step reasoning. In this paper, we present Program-Guided Fact-Checking (ProgramFC), a novel fact-checking model that decomposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Liangming Pan , Xiaobao Wu , Xinyuan Lu , Anh Tuan Luu , William Yang Wang , Min-Yen Kan , Preslav Nakov

We present FAKTA which is a unified framework that integrates various components of a fact checking process: document retrieval from media sources with various types of reliability, stance detection of documents with respect to given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Moin Nadeem , Wei Fang , Brian Xu , Mitra Mohtarami , James Glass

The purpose of this study is to assess how large language models (LLMs) can be used for fact-checking and contribute to the broader debate on the use of automated means for veracity identification. To achieve this purpose, we use AI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Elizaveta Kuznetsova , Ilaria Vitulano , Mykola Makhortykh , Martha Stolze , Tomas Nagy , Victoria Vziatysheva

State-of-the-art single-agent claim verification methods struggle with complex claims that require nuanced analysis of multifaceted evidence. Inspired by real-world professional fact-checkers, we propose \textbf{DebateCV}, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haorui He , Yupeng Li , Dacheng Wen , Yang Chen , Reynold Cheng , Donglong Chen , Francis C. M. Lau