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Automatic fact-checking aims to support professional fact-checkers by offering tools that can help speed up manual fact-checking. Yet, existing frameworks fail to address the key step of producing output suitable for broader dissemination…

We introduce 'FactCheck Editor', an advanced text editor designed to automate fact-checking and correct factual inaccuracies. Given the widespread issue of misinformation, often a result of unintentional mistakes by content creators, our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Vinay Setty

Fact-checking numerical claims is critical as the presence of numbers provide mirage of veracity despite being fake potentially causing catastrophic impacts on society. The prior works in automatic fact verification do not primarily focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 V Venktesh , Deepali Prabhu , Avishek Anand

Selecting which claims to check is a time-consuming task for human fact-checkers, especially from documents consisting of multiple sentences and containing multiple claims. However, existing claim extraction approaches focus more on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhenyun Deng , Michael Schlichtkrull , Andreas Vlachos

With the growth of the internet, the number of fake-news online has been proliferating every year. The consequences of such phenomena are manifold, ranging from lousy decision-making process to bullying and violence episodes. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Diego Esteves , Aniketh Janardhan Reddy , Piyush Chawla , Jens Lehmann

While recent work on automated fact-checking has focused mainly on verifying and explaining claims, for which the list of claims is readily available, identifying check-worthy claim sentences from a text remains challenging. Current claim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Archita Pathak , Rohini K. Srihari

The increased focus on misinformation has spurred development of data and systems for detecting the veracity of a claim as well as retrieving authoritative evidence. The Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) dataset provides such a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Christopher Hidey , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Tariq Alhindi , Siddharth Varia , Kriste Krstovski , Mona Diab , Smaranda Muresan

Fact-checking is an essential tool to mitigate the spread of misinformation and disinformation. We introduce the task of fact-checking in dialogue, which is a relatively unexplored area. We construct DialFact, a testing benchmark dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Prakhar Gupta , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

In this highly digitised world, fake news is a challenging problem that can cause serious harm to society. Considering how fast fake news can spread, automated methods, tools and services for assisting users to do fact-checking (i.e., fake…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Enes Altuncu , Jason R. C. Nurse , Meryem Bagriacik , Sophie Kaleba , Haiyue Yuan , Lisa Bonheme , Shujun Li

Verifiable claim detection asks whether a claim expresses a factual statement that can, in principle, be assessed against external evidence. As an early filtering stage in automated fact-checking, it plays an important role in reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yufeng Li , Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Social media platforms have become new battlegrounds for anti-social elements, with misinformation being the weapon of choice. Fact-checking organizations try to debunk as many claims as possible while staying true to their journalistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Varad Bhatnagar , Diptesh Kanojia , Kameswari Chebrolu

The wide spread of false information online including misinformation and disinformation has become a major problem for our highly digitised and globalised society. A lot of research has been done to better understand different aspects of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Haiyue Yuan , Enes Altuncu , Shujun Li , Can Baskent

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

Automatic fact-checking has recently received more attention as a means of combating misinformation. Despite significant advancements, fact-checking systems based on retrieval-augmented language models still struggle to tackle adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Hongjun Liu , Yilun Zhao , Arman Cohan , Chen Zhao

Automatic fact verification has received significant attention recently. Contemporary automatic fact-checking systems focus on estimating truthfulness using numerical scores which are not human-interpretable. A human fact-checker generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Anku Rani , S. M Towhidul Islam Tonmoy , Dwip Dalal , Shreya Gautam , Megha Chakraborty , Aman Chadha , Amit Sheth , Amitava Das

Fact-checking plays a crucial role in combating misinformation. Existing methods using large language models (LLMs) for claim decomposition face two key limitations: (1) insufficient decomposition, introducing unnecessary complexity to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yani Huang , Richong Zhang , Zhijie Nie , Junfan Chen , Xuefeng Zhang

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

In the context of investigative journalism, we address the problem of automatically identifying which claims in a given document are most worthy and should be prioritized for fact-checking. Despite its importance, this is a relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Pepa Gencheva , Ivan Koychev , Lluís Màrquez , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Preslav Nakov

Fact-checking on the Web has become the main mechanism through which we detect the credibility of the news or information. Existing fact-checkers verify the authenticity of the information (support or refute the claim) based on secondary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zijian Zhang , Koustav Rudra , Avishek Anand

Automated fact-checking systems verify claims against evidence to predict their veracity. In real-world scenarios, the retrieved evidence may not unambiguously support or refute the claim and yield conflicting but valid interpretations.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Max Glockner , Ieva Staliūnaitė , James Thorne , Gisela Vallejo , Andreas Vlachos , Iryna Gurevych