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Justification is an explanation that supports the veracity assigned to a claim in fact-checking. However, the task of justification generation is previously oversimplified as summarization of fact-check article authored by fact-checkers.…
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Aggregating conformal predictors is a standard way of balancing their predictive and computational efficiency while retaining their validity, at least approximately. An important advantage of conformal e-predictors is that they are easier…
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