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Recent years have seen the proliferation of disinformation and fake news online. Traditional approaches to mitigate these issues is to use manual or automatic fact-checking. Recently, another approach has emerged: checking whether the input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Shaden Shaar , Firoj Alam , Giovanni Da San Martino , Preslav Nakov

With the remarkable development of large language models (LLMs), ensuring the factuality of output has become a challenge. However, having all the contents of the response with given knowledge or facts is not necessarily a good thing in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ryohei Kamei , Daiki Shiono , Reina Akama , Jun Suzuki

In this paper we introduce a new publicly available dataset for verification against textual sources, FEVER: Fact Extraction and VERification. It consists of 185,445 claims generated by altering sentences extracted from Wikipedia and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-19 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos , Christos Christodoulopoulos , Arpit Mittal

A series of datasets and models have been proposed for summaries generated for well-formatted documents such as news articles. Dialogue summaries, however, have been under explored. In this paper, we present the first dataset with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Rongxin Zhu , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

This paper introduces the Cross-lingual Fact Extraction and VERification (XFEVER) dataset designed for benchmarking the fact verification models across different languages. We constructed it by translating the claim and evidence texts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yi-Chen Chang , Canasai Kruengkrai , Junichi Yamagishi

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

Reducing the spread of misinformation is challenging. AI-based fact verification systems offer a promising solution by addressing the high costs and slow pace of traditional fact-checking. However, the problem of how to effectively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Huiyun Tang , Björn Rohles , Yuwei Chuai , Gabriele Lenzini , Anastasia Sergeeva

The goal of information-seeking dialogue is to respond to seeker queries with natural language utterances that are grounded on knowledge sources. However, dialogue systems often produce unsupported utterances, a phenomenon known as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Nouha Dziri , Ehsan Kamalloo , Sivan Milton , Osmar Zaiane , Mo Yu , Edoardo M. Ponti , Siva Reddy

While there has been substantial progress in developing systems to automate fact-checking, they still lack credibility in the eyes of the users. Thus, an interesting approach has emerged: to perform automatic fact-checking by verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Momchil Hardalov , Anton Chernyavskiy , Ivan Koychev , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

Fact-checking is the task of verifying the factuality of a given claim by examining the available evidence. High-quality evidence plays a vital role in enhancing fact-checking systems and facilitating the generation of explanations that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yirong Zeng , Xiao Ding , Yi Zhao , Xiangyu Li , Jie Zhang , Chao Yao , Ting Liu , Bing Qin

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

Whilst fact verification has attracted substantial interest in the natural language processing community, verifying misinforming statements against data visualizations such as charts has so far been overlooked. Charts are commonly used in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Mubashara Akhtar , Nikesh Subedi , Vivek Gupta , Sahar Tahmasebi , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very time-consuming, human fact-checkers can benefit from tools that can support them and make them more efficient. Here,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shaden Shaar , Nikola Georgiev , Firoj Alam , Giovanni Da San Martino , Aisha Mohamed , Preslav Nakov

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 verification has attracted a lot of attention in the machine learning and natural language processing communities, as it is one of the key methods for detecting misinformation. Existing large-scale benchmarks for this task have focused…

Developing tools to automatically detect check-worthy claims in political debates and speeches can greatly help moderators of debates, journalists, and fact-checkers. While previous work on this problem has focused exclusively on the text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Petar Ivanov , Ivan Koychev , Momchil Hardalov , Preslav Nakov

Fact verification aims to automatically probe the veracity of a claim based on several pieces of evidence. Existing works are always engaging in accuracy improvement, let alone explainability, a critical capability of fact verification…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Huanhuan Ma , Weizhi Xu , Yifan Wei , Liuji Chen , Liang Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Dialogue summarization has been extensively studied and applied, where the prior works mainly focused on exploring superior model structures to align the input dialogue and the output summary. However, for professional dialogues (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Leilei Gan , Yating Zhang , Kun Kuang , Lin Yuan , Shuo Li , Changlong Sun , Xiaozhong Liu , Fei Wu

Automated fact-checking has drawn considerable attention over the past few decades due to the increase in the diffusion of misinformation on online platforms. This is often carried out as a sequence of tasks comprising (i) the detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Despite significant interest in developing general purpose fact checking models, it is challenging to construct a large-scale fact verification dataset with realistic real-world claims. Existing claims are either authored by crowdworkers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jungsoo Park , Sewon Min , Jaewoo Kang , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi