A survey on automated fact-checking

Z Guo, M Schlichtkrull, A Vlachos - Transactions of the Association for …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both
information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …

Overview of the clef–2022 checkthat! lab on fighting the covid-19 infodemic and fake news detection

P Nakov, A Barrón-Cedeño, G da San Martino… - … Conference of the Cross …, 2022 - Springer
We describe the fifth edition of the CheckThat! lab, part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to …

FactKG: Fact verification via reasoning on knowledge graphs

J Kim, S Park, Y Kwon, Y Jo, J Thorne… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In real world applications, knowledge graphs (KG) are widely used in various domains (eg
medical applications and dialogue agents). However, for fact verification, KGs have not been …

Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source

A Barrón-Cedeño, F Alam, A Galassi… - … Conference of the Cross …, 2023 - Springer
We describe the sixth edition of the CheckThat! lab, part of the 2023 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The five previous editions of CheckThat! focused on the main …

PASTA: table-operations aware fact verification via sentence-table cloze pre-training

Z Gu, J Fan, N Tang, P Nakov, X Zhao, X Du - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Fact verification has attracted a lot of research attention recently, eg, in journalism,
marketing, and policymaking, as misinformation and disinformation online can sway one's …

From Detection to Application: Recent Advances in Understanding Scientific Tables and Figures

J Huang, H Chen, F Yu, W Lu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Tables and figures are usually used to present information in a structured and visual way in
scientific documents. Understanding the tables and figures in scientific documents is …

Reading and reasoning over chart images for evidence-based automated fact-checking

M Akhtar, O Cocarascu, E Simperl - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.11843, 2023 - arxiv.org
Evidence data for automated fact-checking (AFC) can be in multiple modalities such as text,
tables, images, audio, or video. While there is increasing interest in using images for AFC …

Scitab: A challenging benchmark for compositional reasoning and claim verification on scientific tables

X Lu, L Pan, Q Liu, P Nakov, MY Kan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13186, 2023 - arxiv.org
Current scientific fact-checking benchmarks exhibit several shortcomings, such as biases
arising from crowd-sourced claims and an over-reliance on text-based evidence. We present …

Dual-channel evidence fusion for fact verification over texts and tables

N Hu, Z Wu, Y Lai, X Liu, Y Feng - … of the 2022 Conference of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Different from previous fact extraction and verification tasks that only consider evidence of a
single format, FEVEROUS brings further challenges by extending the evidence format to …

Generation of training examples for tabular natural language inference

JF Bussotti, E Veltri, D Santoro, P Papotti - … of the ACM on Management of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Tabular data is becoming increasingly important in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tasks, such as Tabular Natural Language Inference (TNLI). Given a table and a hypothesis …