Papers with manual fact-checking
ClaimRank: Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Arabic and English (N18-5)
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| Challenge: | ClaimRank is an online system for detecting check-worthy claims . it can be used to prioritize the claims fact-checkers should consider first . |
| Approach: | ClaimRank is an online system for detecting check-worthy claims . it is originally trained on political debates, but can work for any kind of text . authors propose to make automated fact-checking easier by prioritizing claims based on annotations from reputable fact- checking organizations. |
| Outcome: | ClaimRank is an online system for detecting check-worthy claims . it can mimic the sentence selection strategies of reputable fact-checking organizations . |
Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations (2023.tacl-1)
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| Challenge: | Automating fact-checking is a time-consuming task that cannot keep up with the ever-increasing amount of fake news produced daily. |
| Approach: | They propose to automate the process of fact-checking by generating justifications from textual explanations of why a claim is classified as either true or false. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves summarization performance over unstructured knowledge and with two datasets with different styles and structures. |
That is a Known Lie: Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | a large number of fact-checked claims have been accumulated over the years . despite the importance of fact checking, it has been largely ignored by the research community . |
| Approach: | They propose to automate fact-checking by focusing on claims that have already been fact-tested . they propose to use specialized datasets to compare different methods . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task shows that it improves over state-of-the-art methods. |