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Automated fact-checking systems often struggle with trustworthiness, as their generated explanations can include hallucinations. In this work, we explore evidence attribution for fact-checking explanation generation. We introduce a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Rui Xing , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

With the rise of generative AI, automated fact-checking methods to combat misinformation are becoming more and more important. However, factual claim detection, the first step in a fact-checking pipeline, suffers from two key issues that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jingwei Ni , Minjing Shi , Dominik Stammbach , Mrinmaya Sachan , Elliott Ash , Markus Leippold

This survey presents an overview of verification techniques for autonomous systems, with a focus on safety-critical autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) and subcomponents thereof. Autonomy in CPS is enabling by recent advances in…

This paper describes SciClops, a method to help combat online scientific misinformation. Although automated fact-checking methods have gained significant attention recently, they require pre-existing ground-truth evidence, which, in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Panayiotis Smeros , Carlos Castillo , Karl Aberer

Automated fact-checking based on machine learning is a promising approach to identify false information distributed on the web. In order to achieve satisfactory performance, machine learning methods require a large corpus with reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Andreas Hanselowski , Christian Stab , Claudia Schulz , Zile Li , Iryna Gurevych

The proliferation of misleading information in everyday access media outlets such as social media feeds, news blogs, and online newspapers have made it challenging to identify trustworthy news sources, thus increasing the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Verónica Pérez-Rosas , Bennett Kleinberg , Alexandra Lefevre , Rada Mihalcea

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

Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume of information that is now generated online. Computational fact checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate the veracity of dubious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia , Prashant Shiralkar , Luis M. Rocha , Johan Bollen , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Flammini

The rise of Internet has made it a major source of information. Unfortunately, not all information online is true, and thus a number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched, both manual and automatic, to deal with the problem. Here,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Anton Chernyavskiy , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently generate hallucinated content, posing significant challenges for applications where factuality is crucial. While existing hallucination detection methods typically operate at the sentence level or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Albert Sawczyn , Jakub Binkowski , Denis Janiak , Bogdan Gabrys , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Large language models (LLMs), especially when instruction-tuned for chat, have become part of our daily lives, freeing people from the process of searching, extracting, and integrating information from multiple sources by offering a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Muhammad Arslan Manzoor , Fei Liu , Georgi Georgiev , Rocktim Jyoti Das , Preslav Nakov

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an essential subset of artificial intelligence. It has become effective in several domains, such as healthcare, finance, and media, to identify perceptions, opinions, and misuse, among others. Privacy is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Andrick Adhikari , Sanchari Das , Rinku Dewri

Verifying fact-checking claims poses a significant challenge, even for humans. Recent approaches have demonstrated that decomposing claims into relevant questions to gather evidence enhances the efficiency of the fact-checking process. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Ritvik Setty , Vinay Setty

Online questionnaires that use crowd-sourcing platforms to recruit participants have become commonplace, due to their ease of use and low costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Large Language Models (LLM) have made it easy for bad actors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Benjamin Lebrun , Sharon Temtsin , Andrew Vonasch , Christoph Bartneck

We introduce ClaimCheck, an LLM-guided automatic fact-checking system designed to verify real-world claims using live Web evidence and small language models. Unlike prior systems that rely on large, closed-source models and static knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Prashant Shiralkar , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

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

The rise of misinformation underscores the need for scalable and reliable fact-checking solutions. Large language models (LLMs) hold promise in automating fact verification, yet their effectiveness across global contexts remains uncertain.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ihsan A. Qazi , Zohaib Khan , Abdullah Ghani , Agha A. Raza , Zafar A. Qazi , Wassay Sajjad , Ayesha Ali , Asher Javaid , Muhammad Abdullah Sohail , Abdul H. Azeemi

Grounded claim factuality checking is important for large language model (LLM) applications such as retrieval-augmented generation, as it helps users assess the correctness of generated outputs. Existing metrics using entailment classifiers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuxuan Ye , Raul Santos-Rodriguez , Edwin Simpson

Fake news, misinformation, and unverifiable facts on social media platforms propagate disharmony and affect society, especially when dealing with an epidemic like COVID-19. The task of Fake News Detection aims to tackle the effects of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Mrinal Rawat , Diptesh Kanojia