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In this paper, we evaluate the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to assess the veracity of claims in ''news reports'' generated by themselves or other LLMs. Our goal is to determine whether LLMs can effectively fact-check their own…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiayi Yao , Haibo Sun , Nianwen Xue

Tool use, such as web search, has become a standard capability even in freely available large language models (LLMs). However, existing benchmarks evaluate temporal reasoning mainly in static, non-tool-using settings, which poorly reflect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengxiang Wang , Zeyu Dong

Temporal relation classification is the task of determining the temporal relation between pairs of temporal entities in a text. Despite recent advancements in natural language processing, temporal relation classification remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hugo Sousa , Ricardo Campos , Alípio Jorge

Temporal information has been the focus of recent attention in information extraction, leading to some standardization effort, in particular for the task of relating events in a text. This task raises the problem of comparing two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Xavier Tannier , Philippe Muller

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed fake news detection and fact-checking tasks from simple classification to complex reasoning. However, evaluation frameworks have not kept pace. Current benchmarks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Cheng Xu , Changhong Jin , Yingjie Niu , Nan Yan , Yuke Mei , Shuhao Guan , Liming Chen , M-Tahar Kechadi

Automatic extraction of temporal relations between event pairs is an important task for several natural language processing applications such as Question Answering, Information Extraction, and Summarization. Since most existing methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel , Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani

Knowledge in the real world is being updated constantly. However, it is costly to frequently update large language models (LLMs). Therefore, it is crucial for LLMs to understand the concept of temporal knowledge. However, prior works on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Lidong Bing

In the age of social media and generative AI, the ability to automatically assess the credibility of online content has become increasingly critical, complementing traditional approaches to false information detection. Credibility…

Our collective attention span is shortened by the flood of online information. With \textit{FarFetched}, we address the need for automated claim validation based on the aggregated evidence derived from multiple online news sources. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dimitris Papadopoulos , Katerina Metropoulou , Nikolaos Matsatsinis , Nikolaos Papadakis

The temporal aspect is a significant dimension of our reality. We notice the challenge that large language models (LLMs) face when engaging in temporal reasoning. Our preliminary experiments show that methods involving the generation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xingxuan Li , Liying Cheng , Qingyu Tan , Hwee Tou Ng , Shafiq Joty , Lidong Bing

Temporal reasoning over tabular data presents substantial challenges for large language models (LLMs), as evidenced by recent research. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of temporal datasets to pinpoint the specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Irwin Deng , Kushagra Dixit , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. This is true, for example, in emergency management and decision-making support, where…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Carlo Bono , Barbara Pernici

Finance-related news such as Bloomberg News, CNN Business and Forbes are valuable sources of real data for market screening systems. In news, an expert shares opinions beyond plain technical analyses that include context such as political,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Silvia García-Méndez , Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Ana Barros-Vila , Francisco J. González-Castaño

Structured information resulting from temporal information processing is crucial for a variety of natural language processing tasks, for instance to generate timeline summarization of events from news documents, or to answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Paramita Mirza

The facts and time in the document are intricately intertwined, making temporal reasoning over documents challenging. Previous work models time implicitly, making it difficult to handle such complex relationships. To address this issue, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zheng Chu , Zekun Wang , Jiafeng Liang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

Evaluating the factuality of long-form generations from Large Language Models (LLMs) remains challenging due to efficiency bottlenecks and reliability concerns. Prior efforts attempt this by decomposing text into claims, searching for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yingjia Wan , Haochen Tan , Xiao Zhu , Xinyu Zhou , Zhiwei Li , Qingsong Lv , Changxuan Sun , Jiaqi Zeng , Yi Xu , Jianqiao Lu , Yinhong Liu , Zhijiang Guo

The ability to perceive how objects change over time is a crucial ingredient in human intelligence. However, current benchmarks cannot faithfully reflect the temporal understanding abilities of video-language models (VidLMs) due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shicheng Li , Lei Li , Shuhuai Ren , Yuanxin Liu , Yi Liu , Rundong Gao , Xu Sun , Lu Hou

Commonsense temporal reasoning at scale is a core problem for cognitive systems. The correct inference of the duration for which fluents hold is required by many tasks, including natural language understanding and planning. Many AI systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Abhishek Sharma

The ability to automatically identify whether an entity is referenced in a future context can have multiple applications including decision making, planning and trend forecasting. This paper focuses on detecting implicit future references…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Puneet Prashar , Krishna Mohan Shukla , Adam Jatowt

Over the past decade, the proliferation of public and enterprise data lakes has fueled intensive research into data discovery, aiming to identify the most relevant data from vast and complex corpora to support diverse user tasks.…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mahdi Esmailoghli , Matthias Weidlich