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Adversarial claim rewriting is widely used to test fact-checking systems, but standard metrics fail to capture truth-conditional consistency and often label semantically corrupted rewrites as successful. We introduce AtomEval, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hongyi Cen

Linking implicit scientific claims made on social media to their original publications is crucial for evidence-based fact-checking and scholarly discourse, yet it is hindered by lexical sparsity, very short queries, and domain-specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Cem Ashbaugh , Leon Baumgärtner , Tim Gress , Nikita Sidorov , Daniel Werner

We contribute the largest publicly available dataset of naturally occurring factual claims for the purpose of automatic claim verification. It is collected from 26 fact checking websites in English, paired with textual sources and rich…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Isabelle Augenstein , Christina Lioma , Dongsheng Wang , Lucas Chaves Lima , Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Jakob Grue Simonsen

The increasing concern with misinformation has stimulated research efforts on automatic fact checking. The recently-released FEVER dataset introduced a benchmark fact-verification task in which a system is asked to verify a claim using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yixin Nie , Haonan Chen , Mohit Bansal

We expect an increase in the frequency and severity of cyber-attacks that comes along with the need for efficient security countermeasures. The process of attributing a cyber-attack helps to construct efficient and targeted mitigating and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Erisa Karafili , Linna Wang , Emil C. Lupu

Automated fact-checking is a crucial task that supports a responsible information ecosystem. While recent research has progressed from text-only to multimodal fact-checking, a prevailing assumption is that incorporating visual evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jaeyoon Jung , Yejun Yoon , Kunwoo Park

Evidence retrieval is a critical stage of question answering (QA), necessary not only to improve performance, but also to explain the decisions of the corresponding QA method. We introduce a simple, fast, and unsupervised iterative evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Vikas Yadav , Steven Bethard , Mihai Surdeanu

Foundation models are increasingly used in scientific research, but evaluating AI-generated scientific work remains challenging. While expert reviews are costly, large language models (LLMs) as proxy reviewers have proven to be unreliable.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Niklas Höpner , Leon Eshuijs , Dimitrios Alivanistos , Giacomo Zamprogno , Ilaria Tiddi

Question answering (QA) can only make progress if we know if an answer is correct, but for many of the most challenging and interesting QA examples, current evaluation metrics to determine answer equivalence (AE) often do not align with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Zongxia Li , Ishani Mondal , Yijun Liang , Huy Nghiem , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Misinformation such as fake news is one of the big challenges of our society. Research on automated fact-checking has proposed methods based on supervised learning, but these approaches do not consider external evidence apart from labeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Kashyap Popat , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Automated Essay Score (AES) is proven to be one of the cutting-edge technologies. Scoring techniques are used for various purposes. Reliable scores are calculated based on influential variables. Such variables can be computed by different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Bagiya Lakshmi S , Sanjjushri Varshini R , Rohith Mahadevan , Raja CSP Raman

We propose a model-based metric to estimate the factual accuracy of generated text that is complementary to typical scoring schemes like ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation) and BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Ben Goodrich , Vinay Rao , Mohammad Saleh , Peter J Liu

Automatic evaluation remains an open research question in Natural Language Generation. In the context of Sentence Simplification, this is particularly challenging: the task requires by nature to replace complex words with simpler ones that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Thomas Scialom , Louis Martin , Jacopo Staiano , Éric Villemonte de la Clergerie , Benoît Sagot

We point out that common evaluation practices for cross-document coreference resolution have been unrealistically permissive in their assumed settings, yielding inflated results. We propose addressing this issue via two evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Arie Cattan , Alon Eirew , Gabriel Stanovsky , Mandar Joshi , Ido Dagan

The rapid expansion of large-scale electronic health record (EHR) data offers unique opportunities to improve the accuracy and efficiency of clinical risk estimation. Yet, because clinical events may occur outside the recording health…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-11 Jie Zhou , Enhao Wang , Xuan Wang

Reliable evaluation is essential for understanding large language model (LLM) performance, yet today's go-to metrics, namely token-overlap scores (e.g., ROUGE) and embedding-based measures (e.g., BERTScore), often misjudge semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Siran Li , Ece Sena Etoglu , Carsten Eickhoff , Seyed Ali Bahrainian

Since LLMs emerged, more attention has been paid to abstractive long-form summarization, where longer input sequences indicate more information contained. Nevertheless, the automatic evaluation of such summaries remains underexplored. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuchen Fan , Yazhe Wan , Xin Zhong , Haonan Cheng , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

Code LLMs still struggle with code execution reasoning, especially in smaller models. Existing methods rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with teacher-generated explanations, primarily in two forms: (1) input-output (I/O) prediction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lingxiao Tang , He Ye , Zhaoyang Chu , Muyang Ye , Zhongxin Liu , Xiaoxue Ren , Lingfeng Bao

Data-driven software is increasingly being used as a critical component of automated decision-support systems. Since this class of software learns its logic from historical data, it can encode or amplify discriminatory practices. Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Verya Monjezi , Ashutosh Trivedi , Vladik Kreinovich , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Referring Camouflaged Object Detection (Ref-COD) focuses on segmenting specific camouflaged targets in a query image using category-aligned references. Despite recent advances, existing methods struggle with reference-target semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ye Wang , Kai Huang , Sumin Shen , Chenyang Ma