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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

The rise of manipulating fake news as a political weapon has become a global concern and highlighted the incapability of manually fact checking against rapidly produced fake news. Thus, statistical approaches are required if we are to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Guojun Wu

Factchecking has always been a part of the journalistic process. However with newsroom budgets shrinking it is coming under increasing pressure just as the amount of false information circulating is on the rise. We therefore propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Ben Adler , Giacomo Boscaini-Gilroy

Factual consistency is one of important summary evaluation dimensions, especially as summary generation becomes more fluent and coherent. The ESTIME measure, recently proposed specifically for factual consistency, achieves high correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Oleg Vasilyev , John Bohannon

Assessing factuality of text generated by large language models (LLMs) is an emerging yet crucial research area, aimed at alerting users to potential errors and guiding the development of more reliable LLMs. Nonetheless, the evaluators…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shiqi Chen , Yiran Zhao , Jinghan Zhang , I-Chun Chern , Siyang Gao , Pengfei Liu , Junxian He

Automatic fact verification has become an increasingly popular topic in recent years and among datasets the Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) dataset is one of the most popular. In this work we present BEVERS, a tuned baseline system…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Mitchell DeHaven , Stephen Scott

The increasing concern with misinformation has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact checking. The recently-released FEVER dataset introduced a benchmark fact-verification task in which a system is asked to verify a claim using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yixin Nie , Haonan Chen , Mohit Bansal

Verifying the correctness of a textual statement requires not only semantic reasoning about the meaning of words, but also symbolic reasoning about logical operations like count, superlative, aggregation, etc. In this work, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Wanjun Zhong , Duyu Tang , Zhangyin Feng , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Daxin Jiang , Jiahai Wang , Jian Yin

In an effort to assist factcheckers in the process of factchecking, we tackle the claim detection task, one of the necessary stages prior to determining the veracity of a claim. It consists of identifying the set of sentences, out of a long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lev Konstantinovskiy , Oliver Price , Mevan Babakar , Arkaitz Zubiaga

The rapid dissemination of information through social media and the Internet has posed a significant challenge for fact-checking, among others in identifying check-worthy claims that fact-checkers should pay attention to, i.e. filtering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Yufeng Li , Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Event factuality prediction (EFP) is the task of assessing the degree to which an event mentioned in a sentence has happened. For this task, both syntactic and semantic information are crucial to identify the important context words. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh , Thien Huu Nguyen , Dejing Dou

Automated evaluation of text generation systems has recently seen increasing attention, particularly checking whether generated text stays truthful to input sources. Existing methods frequently rely on an evaluation using task-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jing Fan , Dennis Aumiller , Michael Gertz

Automated fact-checking, using machine learning to verify claims, has grown vital as misinformation spreads beyond human fact-checking capacity. Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are increasingly trusted to write academic papers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dorian Quelle , Alexandre Bovet

Factuality is important to dialogue summarization. Factual error correction (FEC) of model-generated summaries is one way to improve factuality. Current FEC evaluation that relies on factuality metrics is not reliable and detailed enough.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan , Jia Su , Zhefeng Wang , Baoxing Huai

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

Sentence encoders map sentences to real valued vectors for use in downstream applications. To peek into these representations - e.g., to increase interpretability of their results - probing tasks have been designed which query them for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Steffen Eger , Johannes Daxenberger , Iryna Gurevych

Fact-checking is an essential tool to mitigate the spread of misinformation and disinformation. We introduce the task of fact-checking in dialogue, which is a relatively unexplored area. We construct DialFact, a testing benchmark dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Prakhar Gupta , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2019. The lab featured two tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. Task 1 (English) challenged the participating systems to predict which claims in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Tamer Elsayed , Preslav Nakov , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Maram Hasanain , Reem Suwaileh , Giovanni Da San Martino , Pepa Atanasova

In this paper, we describe DeFactoNLP, the system we designed for the FEVER 2018 Shared Task. The aim of this task was to conceive a system that can not only automatically assess the veracity of a claim but also retrieve evidence supporting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Gil Rocha , Diego Esteves

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed fake news detection and fact-checking tasks from simple classification to complex reasoning. However, evaluation frameworks have not kept pace. Current benchmarks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Cheng Xu , Changhong Jin , Yingjie Niu , Nan Yan , Yuke Mei , Shuhao Guan , Liming Chen , M-Tahar Kechadi