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Judging the veracity of a sentence making one or more claims is an important and challenging problem with many dimensions. The recent FEVER task asked participants to classify input sentences as either SUPPORTED, REFUTED or NotEnoughInfo…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ankur Padia , Francis Ferraro , Tim Finin

Fact verification is essential for ensuring the reliability of LLM applications. In this study, we evaluate 12 pre-trained LLMs and one specialized fact-verifier, including frontier LLMs and open-weight reasoning LLMs, using a collection of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wooseok Seo , Seungju Han , Jaehun Jung , Benjamin Newman , Seungwon Lim , Seungbeen Lee , Ximing Lu , Yejin Choi , Youngjae Yu

Fact-checking the truthfulness of claims usually requires reasoning over multiple evidence sentences. Oftentimes, evidence sentences may not be always self-contained, and may require additional contexts and references from elsewhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Delvin Ce Zhang , Dongwon Lee

Long-form generations from large language models (LLMs) contain a mix of factual and non-factual claims, making evaluating factuality difficult. Prior works evaluate the factuality of a long paragraph by decomposing it into multiple facts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Cheng-Han Chiang , Hung-yi Lee

Social media platforms have become new battlegrounds for anti-social elements, with misinformation being the weapon of choice. Fact-checking organizations try to debunk as many claims as possible while staying true to their journalistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Varad Bhatnagar , Diptesh Kanojia , Kameswari Chebrolu

Technological advancement allows information to be shared in just a single click, which has enabled the rapid spread of false information. This makes automated fact-checking system necessary to ensure the safety and integrity of our online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Anab Maulana Barik , Shou Ziyi , Yang Kaiwen , Yang Qi , Shen Xin

State-of-the-art single-agent claim verification methods struggle with complex claims that require nuanced analysis of multifaceted evidence. Inspired by real-world professional fact-checkers, we propose \textbf{DebateCV}, the first…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haorui He , Yupeng Li , Dacheng Wen , Yang Chen , Reynold Cheng , Donglong Chen , Francis C. M. Lau

Universal fact-checking systems for real-world claims face significant challenges in gathering valid and sufficient real-time evidence and making reasoned decisions. In this work, we introduce the Open-domain Explainable Fact-checking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xin Tan , Bowei Zou , Ai Ti Aw

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

Training language models to solve complex mathematical problems benefits from curriculum learning progressively training on simpler subproblems. However, existing decomposition methods are often heuristic, offering no guarantees that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kaleem Ullah Qasim , Jiashu Zhang , Hao Li , Muhammad Kafeel Shaheen

Extensive research on automatic fake news detection has been conducted due to the significant detrimental effects of fake news proliferation. Most existing approaches rely on a single source of evidence, such as comments or relevant news,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Qingxing Dong , Mengyi Zhang , Shiyuan Wu , Xiaozhen Wu

A prominent weakness of modern language models (LMs) is their tendency to generate factually incorrect text, which hinders their usability. A natural question is whether such factual errors can be detected automatically. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Roi Cohen , May Hamri , Mor Geva , Amir Globerson

Despite significant interest in developing general purpose fact checking models, it is challenging to construct a large-scale fact verification dataset with realistic real-world claims. Existing claims are either authored by crowdworkers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jungsoo Park , Sewon Min , Jaewoo Kang , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

The rapid proliferation of online misinformation threatens the stability of digital social systems and poses significant risks to public trust, policy, and safety, necessitating reliable automated fake news detection. Existing methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Roopa Bukke , Soumya Pandey , Suraj Kumar , Soumi Chattopadhyay , Chandranath Adak

The increased use of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of real-world applications calls for mechanisms to verify the factual accuracy of their outputs. Difficulties lie in assessing the factuality of free-form responses in open…

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

The proliferation of disinformation demands reliable and scalable fact-checking solutions. We present Dynamic Evidence-based FAct-checking with Multimodal Experts (DEFAME), a modular, zero-shot MLLM pipeline for open-domain, text-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tobias Braun , Mark Rothermel , Marcus Rohrbach , Anna Rohrbach

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate fluent and convincing responses, they are not necessarily correct. This is especially apparent in the popular decompose-then-verify factuality evaluation pipeline, where LLMs evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Heyuan Huang , Alexandra DeLucia , Vijay Murari Tiyyala , Mark Dredze

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

Claim verification is a task that involves assessing the truthfulness of a given claim based on multiple evidence pieces. Using large language models (LLMs) for claim verification is a promising way. However, simply feeding all the evidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Haisong Gong , Huanhuan Ma , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

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