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Our society is facing rampant misinformation harming public health and trust. To address the societal challenge, we introduce FACT-GPT, a system leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the claim matching stage of fact-checking.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

Increasing amounts of freely available data both in textual and relational form offers exploration of richer document representations, potentially improving the model performance and robustness. An emerging problem in the modern era is fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Boshko Koloski , Timen Stepišnik-Perdih , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj

Claim verification can be a challenging task. In this paper, we present a method to enhance the robustness and reasoning capabilities of automated claim verification through the extraction of short facts from evidence. Our novel approach,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Nazanin Jafari , James Allan

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

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their proficiency in answering natural language queries. However, their effectiveness is hindered by limited domain-specific knowledge, raising concerns about the…

Knowledge-intensive NLP tasks can benefit from linking natural language text with facts from a Knowledge Graph (KG). Although facts themselves are language-agnostic, the fact labels (i.e., language-specific representation of the fact) in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Keshav Kolluru , Martin Rezk , Pat Verga , William W. Cohen , Partha Talukdar

The rapid development of social platforms exacerbates the dissemination of misinformation, which stimulates the research in fact verification. Recent studies tend to leverage semantic features to solve this problem as a single-hop task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Han Cao , Lingwei Wei , Wei Zhou , Songlin Hu

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used, but they often generate subtle factual errors, especially in long-form text. These errors are fatal in some specialized domains such as medicine. Existing fact-checking with grounding documents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yingjian Chen , Haoran Liu , Yinhong Liu , Jinxiang Xie , Rui Yang , Han Yuan , Yanran Fu , Peng Yuan Zhou , Qingyu Chen , James Caverlee , Irene Li

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

Recent advances in reading comprehension have resulted in models that surpass human performance when the answer is contained in a single, continuous passage of text. However, complex Question Answering (QA) typically requires multi-hop…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Mokanarangan Thayaparan , Marco Valentino , Viktor Schlegel , Andre Freitas

In the digital age, seeking health advice on the Internet has become a common practice. At the same time, determining the trustworthiness of online medical content is increasingly challenging. Fact-checking has emerged as an approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Juraj Vladika , Phillip Schneider , Florian Matthes

The recent advances in large language models (LLM) and foundation models with emergent capabilities have been shown to improve the performance of many NLP tasks. LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (KG) can complement each other such that LLMs can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Sanju Tiwari , Carlos F. Enguix , Kusum Lata

The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Prashant Shiralkar , Alessandro Flammini , Filippo Menczer , Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Table-based fact verification task aims to verify whether the given statement is supported by the given semi-structured table. Symbolic reasoning with logical operations plays a crucial role in this task. Existing methods leverage programs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Qi Shi , Yu Zhang , Qingyu Yin , Ting Liu

Recently, ChatGPT, a representative large language model (LLM), has gained considerable attention due to its powerful emergent abilities. Some researchers suggest that LLMs could potentially replace structured knowledge bases like knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Linyao Yang , Hongyang Chen , Zhao Li , Xiao Ding , Xindong Wu

Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in recent years, there has been also a growing research interest in automatically distinguishing false rumors from factually true claims. Here, we propose a general-purpose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Georgi Karadzhov , Preslav Nakov , Lluis Marquez , Alberto Barron-Cedeno , Ivan Koychev

With the rise of social media, it has become easier to disseminate fake news faster and cheaper, compared to traditional news media, such as television and newspapers. Recently this phenomenon has attracted lot of public attention, because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Shahid Alam , Abdulaziz Ravshanbekov

Previous studies have relied on existing question-answering benchmarks to evaluate the knowledge stored in large language models (LLMs). However, this approach has limitations regarding factual knowledge coverage, as it mostly focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Linhao Luo , Thuy-Trang Vu , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

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

Knowledge graphs (KGs) such as DBpedia, Freebase, YAGO, Wikidata, and NELL were constructed to store large-scale, real-world facts as (subject, predicate, object) triples -- that can also be modeled as a graph, where a node (a subject or an…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Arijit Khan