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In today's technologically driven world, the spread of fake news, particularly during crucial events such as elections, presents an increasing challenge to the integrity of information. To address this challenge, we introduce FakeWatch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tahniat Khan , Mizanur Rahman , Veronica Chatrath , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose , Shaina Raza

We present LINSPECTOR WEB, an open source multilingual inspector to analyze word representations. Our system provides researchers working in low-resource settings with an easily accessible web based probing tool to gain quick insights into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Max Eichler , Gözde Gül Şahin , Iryna Gurevych

Fact-checking is the process of evaluating the veracity of claims (i.e., purported facts). In this opinion piece, we raise an issue that has received little attention in prior work -- that some claims are far more difficult to fact-check…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Prakhar Singh , Anubrata Das , Junyi Jessy Li , Matthew Lease

This paper presents Climinator, a novel AI-based tool designed to automate the fact-checking of climate change claims. Utilizing an array of Large Language Models (LLMs) informed by authoritative sources like the IPCC reports and…

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) store structured factual knowledge by linking entities through relationships, crucial for many applications. These applications depend on the KG's factual accuracy, so verifying facts is essential, yet challenging.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farzad Shami , Stefano Marchesin , Gianmaria Silvello

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

Conversational interfaces powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently become a popular way to obtain feedback during document editing. However, standard chat-based conversational interfaces do not support transparency and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Philippe Laban , Jesse Vig , Marti A. Hearst , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Misleading information spreads on the Internet at an incredible speed, which can lead to irreparable consequences in some cases. It is becoming essential to develop fake news detection technologies. While substantial work has been done in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Daryna Dementieva , Mikhail Kuimov , Alexander Panchenko

In the midst of widespread misinformation and disinformation through social media and the proliferation of AI-generated texts, it has become increasingly difficult for people to validate and trust information they encounter. Many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu , Himanshu Naidu , Mouly Dewan , YoungMin Kim , Tanya Roosta , Aman Chadha , Chirag Shah

Given the growing influx of misinformation across news and social media, there is a critical need for systems that can provide effective real-time verification of news claims. Large language or multimodal model based verification has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jaeyoung Lee , Ximing Lu , Jack Hessel , Faeze Brahman , Youngjae Yu , Yonatan Bisk , Yejin Choi , Saadia Gabriel

Fake news detection research is still in the early stage as this is a relatively new phenomenon in the interest raised by society. Machine learning helps to solve complex problems and to build AI systems nowadays and especially in those…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Sajjad Ahmed , Knut Hinkelmann , Flavio Corradini

The fluency and creativity of large pre-trained language models (LLMs) have led to their widespread use, sometimes even as a replacement for traditional search engines. Yet language models are prone to making convincing but factually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Katherine Tian , Eric Mitchell , Huaxiu Yao , Christopher D. Manning , Chelsea Finn

Fake news detection is a critical yet challenging problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The rapid rise of social networking platforms has not only yielded a vast increase in information accessibility but has also accelerated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ray Oshikawa , Jing Qian , William Yang Wang

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

Fact-checking is essential due to the explosion of misinformation in the media ecosystem. Although false information exists in every language and country, most research to solve the problem mainly concentrated on huge communities like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hung Tuan Le , Long Truong To , Manh Trong Nguyen , Kiet Van Nguyen

Scientific fact-checking aims to determine the veracity of scientific claims by retrieving and analysing evidence from research literature. The problem is inherently more complex than general fact-checking since it must accommodate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xingyu Deng , Xi Wang , Mark Stevenson

The massive volume of online information along with the issue of misinformation has spurred active research in the automation of fact-checking. Like fact-checking by human experts, it is not enough for an automated fact-checker to just be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gionnieve Lim , Simon T. Perrault

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into search services, providing direct answers that can reduce users' reliance on traditional result pages. Yet their factual reliability in non-English web ecosystems remains poorly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Geng Liu , Junjie Mu , Li Feng , Mengxiao Zhu , Francesco Pierri

A common strategy for fact-checking long-form content generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) is extracting simple claims that can be verified independently. Since inaccurate or incomplete claims compromise fact-checking results, ensuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Dasha Metropolitansky , Jonathan Larson

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