Seeing Things from a Different Angle:Discovering Diverse Perspectives about Claims (N19-1)
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| Challenge: | a number of fact checking techniques are used to identify and eliminate biases in text data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use search engines to expand and diversify a dataset of claims, perspectives and evidence to address a selection bias. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods in a language understanding task. |
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