Comparing Knowledge Sources for Open-Domain Scientific Claim Verification (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems for fact-checking scientific claims assume that the documents containing the evidence are already provided and annotated or contained in a limited corpus. |
| Approach: | They perform an array of experiments to test the performance of open-domain claim verification systems on four datasets of biomedical and health claims in different settings. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system performs better with biomedical and health claims, while Wikipedia is more suited for everyday health concerns. |
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