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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kai Ye , Qingtao Pan , Shuo Li

Automating the fact checking (FC) process relies on information obtained from external sources. In this work, we posit that it is crucial for FC models to make veracity predictions only when there is sufficient evidence and otherwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Pepa Atanasova , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma , Isabelle Augenstein

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attention to the impact of contextual and discourse information. We address two related tasks: (i) detecting check-worthy claims, and (ii) fact-checking claims. We develop…

Fact-checking long-form text is challenging, and it is therefore common practice to break it down into multiple atomic claims. The typical approach to fact-checking these atomic claims involves retrieving a fixed number of pieces of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Zhuohan Xie , Rui Xing , Yuxia Wang , Jiahui Geng , Hasan Iqbal , Dhruv Sahnan , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

Despite rapid progress in claim verification, we lack a systematic understanding of what reasoning these benchmarks actually exercise. We generate structured reasoning traces for 24K claim-verification examples across 9 datasets using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Delip Rao , Chris Callison-Burch

The rapid spread of misinformation in the digital era poses significant challenges to public discourse, necessitating robust and scalable fact-checking solutions. Traditional human-led fact-checking methods, while credible, struggle with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tam Trinh , Manh Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

Automated fact-checking benchmarks have largely ignored the challenge of verifying claims against real-world, high-volume structured data, instead focusing on small, curated tables. We introduce a new large-scale, multilingual dataset to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jacob Devasier , Akshith Putta , Qing Wang , Alankrit Moses , Chengkai Li

In our era of widespread false information, human fact-checkers often face the challenge of duplicating efforts when verifying claims that may have already been addressed in other countries or languages. As false information transcends…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ivan Vykopal , Matúš Pikuliak , Simon Ostermann , Tatiana Anikina , Michal Gregor , Marián Šimko

Weak memory models specify the semantics of concurrent programs on multi-core architectures. Reasoning techniques for weak memory models are often specialized to one fixed model and verification results are hence not transferable to other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lara Bargmann , Heike Wehrheim

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

Fact checking aims to predict claim veracity by reasoning over multiple evidence pieces. It usually involves evidence retrieval and veracity reasoning. In this paper, we focus on the latter, reasoning over unstructured text and structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Haisong Gong , Weizhi Xu , Shu wu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Large language models (LLMs) excel in generating fluent utterances but can lack reliable grounding in verified information. At the same time, knowledge-graph-based fact-checkers deliver precise and interpretable evidence, yet suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shaghayegh Kolli , Richard Rosenbaum , Timo Cavelius , Lasse Strothe , Andrii Lata , Jana Diesner

The Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) shared task was launched to support the development of systems able to verify claims by extracting supporting or refuting facts from raw text. The shared task organizers provide a large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Andreas Hanselowski , Hao Zhang , Zile Li , Daniil Sorokin , Benjamin Schiller , Claudia Schulz , Iryna Gurevych

Claim verification can be a challenging task. In this paper, we present a method to enhance the robustness and reasoning capabilities of automated claim verification through the extraction of short facts from evidence. Our novel approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Nazanin Jafari , James Allan

We present a novel and well automatable approach to formal verification of programs with underspecified semantics, i.e., a language semantics that leaves open the order of certain evaluations. First, we reduce this problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Eduard Kamburjan , Nathan Wasser

We consider fact-checking approaches that aim to predict the veracity of assertions in knowledge graphs. Five main categories of fact-checking approaches for knowledge graphs have been proposed in the recent literature, of which each is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Umair Qudus , Michael Roeder , Muhammad Saleem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

The growing complexity of factual claims in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges for automated fact verification systems, particularly in accurately aggregating and reasoning over multi-hop evidence. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Liwen Zheng , Chaozhuo Li , Haoran Jia , Xi Zhang

Fact verification is essential for ensuring the reliability of LLM applications. In this study, we evaluate 12 pre-trained LLMs and one specialized fact-verifier, including frontier LLMs and open-weight reasoning LLMs, using a collection of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wooseok Seo , Seungju Han , Jaehun Jung , Benjamin Newman , Seungwon Lim , Seungbeen Lee , Ximing Lu , Yejin Choi , Youngjae Yu

Widely used complex code refactoring tools lack a solid reasoning about the correctness of the transformations they implement, whilst interest in proven correct refactoring is ever increasing as only formal verification can provide true…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dániel Horpácsi , Judit Kőszegi , Zoltán Horváth

Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore, researchers have been exploring how fact-checking can be automated, using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Zhijiang Guo , Michael Schlichtkrull , Andreas Vlachos