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The recently increased focus on misinformation has stimulated research in fact checking, the task of assessing the truthfulness of a claim. Research in automating this task has been conducted in a variety of disciplines including natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

This paper presents AI Wizards' participation in the CLEF 2025 CheckThat! Lab Task 1: Subjectivity Detection in News Articles, classifying sentences as subjective/objective in monolingual, multilingual, and zero-shot settings.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matteo Fasulo , Luca Babboni , Luca Tedeschini

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 task of fact-checking deals with assessing the veracity of factual claims based on credible evidence and background knowledge. In particular, scientific fact-checking is the variation of the task concerned with verifying claims rooted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Juraj Vladika , Florian Matthes

While there has been substantial progress in developing systems to automate fact-checking, they still lack credibility in the eyes of the users. Thus, an interesting approach has emerged: to perform automatic fact-checking by verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Momchil Hardalov , Anton Chernyavskiy , Ivan Koychev , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

In this digital age of news consumption, a news reader has the ability to react, express and share opinions with others in a highly interactive and fast manner. As a consequence, fake news has made its way into our daily life because of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

We participate in CheckThat! Task 2 English and explore various methods of prompting and in-context learning, including few-shot prompting and fine-tuning with different LLM families, with the goal of extracting check-worthy claims from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Joe Wilder , Nikhil Kadapala , Benji Xu , Mohammed Alsaadi , Aiden Parsons , Mitchell Rogers , Palash Agarwal , Adam Hassick , Laura Dietz

Checking and confirming factual information in texts and speeches is vital to determine the veracity and correctness of the factual statements. This work was previously done by journalists and other manual means but it is a time-consuming…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sidharth Singla

Identifying the scientific source behind a social media claim requires matching short, informal, and often multilingual claims against large collections of scientific publications, where semantically related papers may act as challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Juli Bakagianni , Symeon Papadopoulos

Much research has been done for debunking and analysing fake news. Many researchers study fake news detection in the last year, but many are limited to social media data. Currently, multiples fact-checkers are publishing their results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sushma Kumari

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

While misinformation and disinformation have been thriving in social media for years, with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the health misinformation merged, thus elevating the problem to a whole new level and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Alex Nikolov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Online disinformation poses a global challenge, placing significant demands on fact-checkers who must verify claims efficiently to prevent the spread of false information. A major issue in this process is the redundant verification of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Ivan Vykopal , Martin Hyben , Robert Moro , Michal Gregor , Jakub Simko

With the rise of social media, users are exposed to many misleading claims. However, the pervasive noise inherent in these posts presents a challenge in identifying precise and prominent claims that require verification. Extracting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Megha Sundriyal , Tanmoy Chakraborty , Preslav Nakov

The generative plagiarism detection task at PAN 2025 aims at identifying automatically generated textual plagiarism in scientific articles and aligning them with their respective sources. We created a novel large-scale dataset of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 André Greiner-Petter , Maik Fröbe , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp , Akiko Aizawa , Martin Potthast

Online disinformation poses an escalating threat to society, driven increasingly by the rapid spread of misleading content across both multimedia and multilingual platforms. While automated fact-checking methods have advanced in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Rafael Martins Frade , Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

Identifying claims requiring verification is a critical task in automated fact-checking, especially given the proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms. Despite notable progress, challenges remain-particularly in handling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rrubaa Panchendrarajan , Arkaitz Zubiaga

In today's digital era, the rapid spread of misinformation poses threats to public well-being and societal trust. As online misinformation proliferates, manual verification by fact checkers becomes increasingly challenging. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Eun Cheol Choi , Emilio Ferrara

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media underscores the need for scalable fact-checking tools. A key step is claim detection, which identifies statements that can be objectively verified. Prior approaches often rely on linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yufeng Li , Arkaitz Zubiaga

We present an overview of the SciVer shared task, presented at the 2nd Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop at NAACL 2021. In this shared task, systems were provided a scientific claim and a corpus of research abstracts, and asked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 David Wadden , Kyle Lo