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Table-based Fact Verification (TFV) aims to extract the entailment relation between statements and structured tables. Existing TFV methods based on small-scaled models suffer from insufficient labeled data and weak zero-shot ability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Hanwen Zhang , Qingyi Si , Peng Fu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

A number of exciting advances have been made in automated fact-checking thanks to increasingly larger datasets and more powerful systems, leading to improvements in the complexity of claims which can be accurately fact-checked. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Neema Kotonya , Francesca Toni

Despite recent success in natural language processing (NLP), fact verification still remains a difficult task. Due to misinformation spreading increasingly fast, attention has been directed towards automatically verifying the correctness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Tobias A. Opsahl

The recent proliferation of "fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a large number of fact-checked claims have been accumulated,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shaden Shaar , Giovanni Da San Martino , Nikolay Babulkov , Preslav Nakov

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

Recent work has proposed multi-hop models and datasets for studying complex natural language reasoning. One notable task requiring multi-hop reasoning is fact checking, where a set of connected evidence pieces leads to the final verdict of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Wojciech Ostrowski , Arnav Arora , Pepa Atanasova , Isabelle Augenstein

Ensuring factual consistency and reliable reasoning remains a critical challenge for medical vision-language models. We introduce MEDFACT-R1, a two-stage framework that integrates external knowledge grounding with reinforcement learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Gengliang Li , Rongyu Chen , Bin Li , Linlin Yang , Guodong Ding

This paper introduces the task of factual error correction: performing edits to a claim so that the generated rewrite is better supported by evidence. This extends the well-studied task of fact verification by providing a mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

This paper introduces the task of factual error correction: performing edits to a claim so that the generated rewrite is better supported by evidence. This extends the well-studied task of fact verification by providing a mechanism to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-17 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

Temporal claims, often riddled with inaccuracies, are a significant challenge in the digital misinformation landscape. Fact-checking systems that can accurately verify such claims are crucial for combating misinformation. Current systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Anab Maulana Barik , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Fact-checking aims to verify the truthfulness of a claim based on the retrieved evidence. Existing methods typically follow a decomposition paradigm, in which a claim is broken down into sub-claims that are individually verified. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mingwei Sun , Qianlong Wang , Ruifeng Xu

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 rapid adoption of language models (LMs) across diverse applications has raised concerns about their factuality, i.e., their consistency with real-world facts. We first present VERIFY (Verification and Evidence RetrIeval for FactualitY…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Farima Fatahi Bayat , Lechen Zhang , Sheza Munir , Lu Wang

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for automatic tools to check the factual accuracy of their outputs, as LLMs often hallucinate. This is difficult as it requires assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hasan Iqbal , Yuxia Wang , Minghan Wang , Georgi Georgiev , Jiahui Geng , Iryna Gurevych , Preslav Nakov

Automated Fact-Checking has largely focused on verifying general knowledge against static corpora, overlooking high-stakes domains like law where truth is evolving and technically complex. We introduce CaseFacts, a benchmark for verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Akshith Reddy Putta , Jacob Devasier , Chengkai Li

Real-world fact verification task aims to verify the factuality of a claim by retrieving evidence from the source document. The quality of the retrieved evidence plays an important role in claim verification. Ideally, the retrieved evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Xuming Hu , Zhaochen Hong , Zhijiang Guo , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have significantly improved multimodal reasoning tasks, such as visual question answering and image captioning. These models embed multimodal facts within their parameters, rather than relying on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shengkang Wang , Hongzhan Lin , Ziyang Luo , Zhen Ye , Guang Chen , Jing Ma

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are trained on vast unlabeled data, rich in world knowledge. This fact has sparked the interest of the community in quantifying the amount of factual knowledge present in PLMs, as this explains their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Paul Youssef , Osman Alperen Koraş , Meijie Li , Jörg Schlötterer , Christin Seifert

Fact-checking research has extensively explored verification but less so the generation of natural-language explanations, crucial for user trust. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in text generation, their capability for producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Kyungha Kim , Sangyun Lee , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Hou Pong Chan , Manling Li , Heng Ji

Reliable verification of proofs remains a bottleneck for training and evaluating AI systems on hard mathematical reasoning. Fully formal proofs, in languages like Lean, are easy to verify because they are unambiguous and modular. Most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Slim Barkallah , Luke Bailey , Kaiyue Wen , Mohammed Abouzaid , Tengyu Ma