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Automated frame analysis of political communication is a popular task in computational social science that is used to study how authors select aspects of a topic to frame its reception. So far, such studies have been narrow, in that they…

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In this paper, we delve into the rapidly evolving challenge of misinformation detection, with a specific focus on the nuanced manipulation of narrative frames - an under-explored area within the AI community. The potential for Generative AI…

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We present a new multimodal question answering challenge, ManyModalQA, in which an agent must answer a question by considering three distinct modalities: text, images, and tables. We collect our data by scraping Wikipedia and then utilize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Darryl Hannan , Akshay Jain , Mohit Bansal

We introduce DualFact, a dual-layer, multimodal factuality evaluation framework for procedural video captioning. DualFact separates factual correctness into conceptual facts, capturing abstract semantic roles (e.g., Action, Ingredient,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Cennet Oguz , Yasser Hamidullah , Josef van Genabith , Simon Ostermann

This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multimodal alignment and fusion within the field of machine learning, driven by the increasing availability and diversity of data modalities such as text, images, audio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Songtao Li , Hao Tang

The rapid and widespread dissemination of misinformation through social networks is a growing concern in today's digital age. This study focused on modeling fake news diffusion, discovering the spreading dynamics, and designing control…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ali Khodabandeh Yalabadi , Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi , Sina Abdidizaji , Ivan Garibay , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

The spread of online misinformation poses serious threats to democratic societies. Traditionally, expert fact-checkers verify the truthfulness of information through investigative processes. However, the volume and immediacy of online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Michael Soprano

Evidence data for automated fact-checking (AFC) can be in multiple modalities such as text, tables, images, audio, or video. While there is increasing interest in using images for AFC, previous works mostly focus on detecting manipulated or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Mubashara Akhtar , Oana Cocarascu , Elena Simperl

With the growing adoption of short-form video by social media platforms, reducing the spread of misinformation through video posts has become a critical challenge for social media providers. In this paper, we develop methods to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kehan Wang , David Chan , Seth Z. Zhao , John Canny , Avideh Zakhor

Misinformation is becoming increasingly prevalent on social media and in news articles. It has become so widespread that we require algorithmic assistance utilising machine learning to detect such content. Training these machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dan Saattrup Nielsen , Ryan McConville

Multimodal summarization aims to generate a concise summary based on the input text and image. However, the existing methods potentially suffer from unfactual output. To evaluate the factuality of multimodal summarization models, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yue Zhang , Jingxuan Zuo , Ke Su , Liqiang Jing

Generating textual rationales from large vision-language models (LVLMs) to support trainable multimodal misinformation detectors has emerged as a promising paradigm. However, its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by three core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Herun Wan , Jiaying Wu , Minnan Luo , Xiangzheng Kong , Zihan Ma , Zhi Zeng

Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) have demonstrated strong advantages in addressing complex real-world tasks. However, due to the introduction of additional attack surfaces, MASs are particularly vulnerable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zherui Li , Yan Mi , Zhenhong Zhou , Houcheng Jiang , Guibin Zhang , Kun Wang , Junfeng Fang

The increasing proliferation of misinformation and its alarming impact have motivated both industry and academia to develop approaches for misinformation detection and fact checking. Recent advances on large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sahar Tahmasebi , Eric Müller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

In Singapore, there has been a rise in misinformation on mobile instant messaging services (MIMS). MIMS support both small peer-to-peer networks and large groups. Misinformation in the former may spread due to recipients' trust in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Gionnieve Lim , Simon T. Perrault

We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ye Zhu , Yu Wu , Nicu Sebe , Yan Yan

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

The present level of proliferation of fake, biased, and propagandistic content online has made it impossible to fact-check every single suspicious claim or article, either manually or automatically. Thus, many researchers are shifting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Preslav Nakov , Husrev Taha Sencar , Jisun An , Haewoon Kwak

A number of exciting advances have been made in automated fact-checking thanks to increasingly larger datasets and more powerful systems, leading to improvements in the complexity of claims which can be accurately fact-checked. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Neema Kotonya , Francesca Toni

Deception, a prevalent aspect of human communication, has undergone a significant transformation in the digital age. With the globalization of online interactions, individuals are communicating in multiple languages and mixing languages on…

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