LI4: Label-Infused Iterative Information Interacting Based Fact Verification in Question-answering Dialogue (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on fact verification have failed to fully exploit question structures and ignoring relevant label information during the verification process. |
| Approach: | They propose a new approach for question-answering dialogue based fact verification using label-infused iterative information interacting. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves remarkable performance on HEALTHVER, FAVIQ, and COLLOQUIAL. |
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