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Although many fact-checking systems have been developed in academia and industry, fake news is still proliferating on social media. These systems mostly focus on fact-checking but usually neglect online users who are the main drivers of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

Hallucinations in generative AI, particularly in Large Language Models (LLMs), pose a significant challenge to the reliability of multilingual applications. Existing benchmarks for hallucination detection focus primarily on English and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hanzhi Zhang , Sumera Anjum , Heng Fan , Weijian Zheng , Yan Huang , Yunhe Feng

Natural Language Processing and Generation systems have recently shown the potential to complement and streamline the costly and time-consuming job of professional fact-checkers. In this work, we lift several constraints of current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Daniel Russo , Stefano Menini , Jacopo Staiano , Marco Guerini

There is growing interest in hypothesis generation with large language models (LLMs). However, fundamental questions remain: what makes a good hypothesis, and how can we systematically evaluate methods for hypothesis generation? To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Haokun Liu , Sicong Huang , Jingyu Hu , Yangqiaoyu Zhou , Chenhao Tan

Public, professional and academic interest in automated fact-checking has drastically increased over the past decade, with many aiming to automate one of the first steps in a fact-check procedure: the selection of so-called checkworthy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Liesbeth Allein , Marie-Francine Moens

The proliferation of fake news and its propagation on social media has become a major concern due to its ability to create devastating impacts. Different machine learning approaches have been suggested to detect fake news. However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Junaed Younus Khan , Md. Tawkat Islam Khondaker , Sadia Afroz , Gias Uddin , Anindya Iqbal

While Large Language Models have transformed how we interact with AI systems, they suffer from a critical flaw: they confidently generate false information that sounds entirely plausible. This hallucination problem has become a major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Piyushkumar Patel

Factuality in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a persistent challenge. Current benchmarks often assess short factual answers, overlooking the critical ability to generate structured, multi-record tabular outputs from parametric knowledge. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Dario Satriani , Enzo Veltri , Donatello Santoro , Paolo Papotti

As Large Language Models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, their ability to detect false assumptions and reason critically is crucial for ensuring reliable outputs. False-premise questions (FPQs) serve as an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohammadamin Shafiei , Hamidreza Saffari , Nafise Sadat Moosavi

We introduce SciTrek, a diagnostic question-answering benchmark designed to probe long-context numerical reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Existing long-context benchmarks mostly focus on simple information retrieval, rely on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Miao Li , Alexander Gurung , Irina Saparina , Mirella Lapata

Fact-checking remains a demanding and time-consuming task, still largely dependent on manual verification and unable to match the rapid spread of misinformation online. This is particularly important because debunking false information…

Large language models (LLMs) often generate responses that deviate from user input or training data, a phenomenon known as "hallucination." These hallucinations undermine user trust and hinder the adoption of generative AI systems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Yejin Bang , Ziwei Ji , Alan Schelten , Anthony Hartshorn , Tara Fowler , Cheng Zhang , Nicola Cancedda , Pascale Fung

The pervasiveness of large language models and generative AI in online media has amplified the need for effective automated fact-checking to assist fact-checkers in tackling the increasing volume and sophistication of misinformation. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Greta Warren , Irina Shklovski , Isabelle Augenstein

Fake news becomes a growing threat to information security and public opinion with the rapid sprawl of media manipulation. Therefore, fake news detection attracts widespread attention from academic community. Traditional fake news detection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Ruihan Jin , Ruibo Fu , Zhengqi Wen , Shuai Zhang , Yukun Liu , Jianhua Tao

The identification and localization of errors is a core task in peer review, yet the exponential growth of scientific output has made it increasingly difficult for human reviewers to reliably detect errors given the limited pool of experts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Sarina Xi , Vishisht Rao , Justin Payan , Nihar B. Shah

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

Given the widespread dissemination of misinformation on social media, implementing fact-checking mechanisms for online claims is essential. Manually verifying every claim is very challenging, underscoring the need for an automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ronit Singhal , Pransh Patwa , Parth Patwa , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das

Prior research on training grounded factuality classification models to detect hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) has relied on public natural language inference (NLI) data and synthetic data. However, conventional NLI datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Deren Lei , Yaxi Li , Siyao Li , Mengya Hu , Rui Xu , Ken Archer , Mingyu Wang , Emily Ching , Alex Deng

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

The detection of sensational content in media items can be a critical filtering mechanism for identifying check-worthy content and flagging potential disinformation, since such content triggers physiological arousal that often bypasses…

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