SciFact-Open: Towards open-domain scientific claim verification (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Current scientific claim verification systems can achieve very strong performance on limited contexts, in some cases approaching human agreement. |
| Approach: | They propose to pool and annotate top predictions from four state-of-the-art scientific claim verification models to evaluate their performance against large corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs well on a corpus of 500K scientific abstracts. |
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