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Fact-checking-specific search tools such as Google Fact Check are a promising way to combat misinformation on social media, especially during events bringing significant social influence, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qiangeng Yang , Tess Christensen , Shlok Gilda , Juliana Fernandes , Daniela Oliveira , Ronald Wilson , Damon Woodard

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

As online false information continues to grow, automated fact-checking has gained an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have contributed to the task by building…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xia Zeng , Amani S. Abumansour , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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…

We propose a novel paradigm for automatic fact-checking that leverages frame semantics to enhance the structured understanding of claims and guide the process of fact-checking them. To support this, we introduce a pilot dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jacob Devasier , Rishabh Mediratta , Akshith Putta , Chengkai Li

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

Automated fact-checking is a crucial task in the governance of internet content. Although various studies utilize advanced models to tackle this issue, a significant gap persists in addressing complex real-world rumors and deceptive claims.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Wei-Yu Kao , An-Zi Yen

The expansion of online social media platforms has led to a surge in online content consumption. However, this has also paved the way for disseminating false claims and misinformation. As a result, there is an escalating demand for a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Megha Sundriyal , Md Shad Akhtar , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Most existing work on automated fact checking is concerned with predicting the veracity of claims based on metadata, social network spread, language used in claims, and, more recently, evidence supporting or denying claims. A crucial piece…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Pepa Atanasova , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma , Isabelle Augenstein

Robust automatic fact-checking systems have the potential to combat online misinformation at scale. However, most existing research primarily focuses on English. In this paper, we introduce MultiSynFact, the first large-scale multilingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yi-Ling Chung , Aurora Cobo , Pablo Serna

Automated Fact-Checking (AFC) is the automated verification of claim accuracy. AFC is crucial in discerning truth from misinformation, especially given the huge amounts of content are generated online daily. Current research focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Islam Eldifrawi , Shengrui Wang , Amine Trabelsi

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 is the process of evaluating the veracity of claims (i.e., purported facts). In this opinion piece, we raise an issue that has received little attention in prior work -- that some claims are far more difficult to fact-check…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Prakhar Singh , Anubrata Das , Junyi Jessy Li , Matthew Lease

With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next largest edition, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zining Wang , Yuxuan Zhang , Dongwook Yoon , Nicholas Vincent , Farhan Samir , Vered Shwartz

The increasing prevalence of online misinformation has heightened the demand for automated fact-checking solutions. Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as potential tools for assisting in this task, but their effectiveness remains…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nicolo' Fontana , Francesco Corso , Enrico Zuccolotto , Francesco Pierri

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

Information verification is quite a challenging task, this is because many times verifying a claim can require picking pieces of information from multiple pieces of evidence which can have a hierarchy of complex semantic relations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Usama Khalid , Mirza Omer Beg

The past decade has seen a substantial rise in the amount of mis- and disinformation online, from targeted disinformation campaigns to influence politics, to the unintentional spreading of misinformation about public health. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Isabelle Augenstein

Online encyclopediae like Wikipedia contain large amounts of text that need frequent corrections and updates. The new information may contradict existing content in encyclopediae. In this paper, we focus on rewriting such dynamically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Darsh J Shah , Tal Schuster , Regina Barzilay

Wikipedia is playing an increasingly central role on the web,and the policies its contributors follow when sourcing and fact-checking content affect million of readers. Among these core guiding principles, verifiability policies have a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Miriam Redi , Besnik Fetahu , Jonathan Morgan , Dario Taraborelli