Papers by David Corney
PledgeTracker: A System for Monitoring the Fulfilment of Pledges (2025.emnlp-demos)
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Yulong Chen, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Zhenyun Deng, David Corney, Nasim Asl, Joshua Salisbury, Andrew Dudfield, Andreas Vlachos
| Challenge: | Existing methods simplify pledge verification into document classification task, overlooking its dynamic temporal and multi-document nature. |
| Approach: | They propose a system that reformulates pledge verification into structured event timeline construction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system shows that it can be used in real-world workflows and reduces human verification effort. |
Can LLMs Automate Fact-Checking Article Writing? (2026.tacl-1)
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Dhruv Sahnan, David Corney, Irene Larraz, Giovanni Zagni, Ruben Miguez, Zhuohan Xie, Iryna Gurevych, Elizabeth Churchill, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | Existing tools for automatic fact-checking produce little or no justification for their assessments . 80% of american adults on major social media platforms regularly encounter news-related content . |
| Approach: | They propose to extend automatic fact-checking pipeline with automatic generation of full fact- checking articles. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing frameworks but lags behind expert-written articles. |