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In the current digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation on online platforms presents significant challenges to societal well-being, public trust, and democratic processes, influencing critical decision making and public opinion. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Xinyi Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Edward C. Malthouse

Large language models (LLMs) have gained broad applications across various domains but still struggle with hallucinations. Currently, hallucinations occur frequently in the generation of factual content and pose a great challenge to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zouying Cao , Yifei Yang , XiaoJing Li , Hai Zhao

Recent Language Models (LMs) have shown impressive capabilities in generating texts with the knowledge internalized in parameters. Yet, LMs often generate the factually incorrect responses to the given queries, since their knowledge may be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Jinheon Baek , Soyeong Jeong , Minki Kang , Jong C. Park , Sung Ju Hwang

Search-augmented LLM agents can produce deep research reports (DRRs), but verifying claim-level factuality remains challenging. Existing fact-checkers are primarily designed for general-domain, factoid-style atomic claims, and there is no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yukun Huang , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Momchil Hardalov , Bhuwan Dhingra , Markus Dreyer , Venkatesh Saligrama

Evidence-based fact checking aims to verify the truthfulness of a claim against evidence extracted from textual sources. Learning a representation that effectively captures relations between a claim and evidence can be challenging. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Canasai Kruengkrai , Junichi Yamagishi , Xin Wang

Automated fact-checking has drawn considerable attention over the past few decades due to the increase in the diffusion of misinformation on online platforms. This is often carried out as a sequence of tasks comprising (i) the detection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

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…

Assessing factuality of text generated by large language models (LLMs) is an emerging yet crucial research area, aimed at alerting users to potential errors and guiding the development of more reliable LLMs. Nonetheless, the evaluators…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shiqi Chen , Yiran Zhao , Jinghan Zhang , I-Chun Chern , Siyang Gao , Pengfei Liu , Junxian He

Assessing the veracity of online content has become increasingly critical. Large language models (LLMs) have recently enabled substantial progress in automated veracity assessment, including automated fact-checking and claim verification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yupeng Cao , Chengyang He , Yangyang Yu , Ping Wang , K. P. Subbalakshmi

Fact-checking articles encode rich supporting evidence and reasoning, yet this evidence remains largely inaccessible to automated verification systems due to unstructured presentation. We introduce PrimeFacts, a methodology and resource for…

With the widespread consumption of AI-generated content, there has been an increased focus on developing automated tools to verify the factual accuracy of such content. However, prior research and tools developed for fact verification treat…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Varich Boonsanong , Vidhisha Balachandran , Xiaochuang Han , Shangbin Feng , Lucy Lu Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are proficient at retrieving single facts from extended contexts, yet they struggle with tasks requiring the simultaneous retrieval of multiple facts, especially during generation. This paper identifies a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jinlin Wang , Suyuchen Wang , Ziwen Xia , Sirui Hong , Yun Zhu , Bang Liu , Chenglin Wu

Functional verification has become the most time-consuming phase in IC development, and Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) is key to reducing debugging time. However, existing LLM-based assertion generation methods typically pursue…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yonghao Wang , Hongqin Lyu , Boling Chen , MinYang Bao , Wenchao Ding , Feng Gu , Zhiteng Chao , Jianan Mu , Kan Shi , Tiancheng Wang , Huawei Li

In response to the growing problem of misinformation in the context of globalization and informatization, this paper proposes a classification method for fact-check-worthiness estimation based on prompt tuning. We construct a model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yinglong Yu , Hao Shen , Zhengyi Lyu , Qi He

Misinformation spreading over the Internet poses a significant threat to both societies and individuals, necessitating robust and scalable fact-checking that relies on retrieving accurate and trustworthy evidence. Previous methods rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris , Preslav Nakov , Zhuohan Xie

The scientific claim verification task requires an NLP system to label scientific documents which Support or Refute an input claim, and to select evidentiary sentences (or rationales) justifying each predicted label. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-11 David Wadden , Kyle Lo , Lucy Lu Wang , Arman Cohan , Iz Beltagy , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Fact-checking real-world claims often requires reviewing multiple multimodal documents to assess a claim's truthfulness, which is a highly laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we present a summarization model designed to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ting-Chih Chen , Chia-Wei Tang , Chris Thomas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to produce hallucinations - factually incorrect or fabricated information - which poses significant challenges for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as dialogue systems. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xiangyan Chen , Yufeng Li , Yujian Gan , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Matthew Purver

Assessing the factual consistency of automatically generated texts in relation to source context is crucial for developing reliable natural language generation applications. Recent literature proposes AlignScore which uses a unified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Tong Wang , Ninad Kulkarni , Yanjun Qi

The recent explosion of false claims in social media and on the Web in general has given rise to a lot of manual fact-checking initiatives. Unfortunately, the number of claims that need to be fact-checked is several orders of magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Dimitrina Zlatkova , Preslav Nakov , Ivan Koychev