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Checkworthiness in Automatic Claim Detection Models: Definitions and Analysis of Datasets
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2020
arXiv
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After elaborate analysis of checkworthy claim selection procedures in fact-check organisations and analysis of state-of-the-art claim detection datasets, checkworthiness is defined as the concept of having ...
claim detection models. ...
Datasets and Computational Models The divergent interpretations of checkworthiness are reflected in the datasets used for training and testing checkworthy claim detection models. ...
arXiv:2008.08854v1
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Claim Check-Worthiness Detection as Positive Unlabelled Learning
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2020
arXiv
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As the first step of automatic fact checking, claim check-worthiness detection is a critical component of fact checking systems. ...
In applying this, we out-perform the state of the art in two of the three tasks studied for claim check-worthiness detection in English. ...
Acknowledgements This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 801199. ...
arXiv:2003.02736v2
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Leveraging Commonsense Knowledge on Classifying False News and Determining Checkworthiness of Claims
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2021
arXiv
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We compare the model's performance with the single-task BERT model and a state-of-the-art check-worthy claim detection tool to evaluate the check-worthy claim detection. ...
In this paper, we propose to leverage commonsense knowledge for the tasks of false news classification and check-worthy claim detection. ...
Dataset for Check-worthy Claim Detection To evaluate the model in claim-level, we used the ClaimBuster dataset (Arslan et al., 2020) . ...
arXiv:2108.03731v1
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Sequential Modelling with Applications to Music Recommendation, Fact-Checking, and Speed Reading
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2021
arXiv
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text semantics in order to automatically fact-check claims, or "speed read" text for efficient further classification. ...
Sequential modelling entails making sense of sequential data, which naturally occurs in a wide array of domains. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Partly funded by Innovationsfonden DK, DABAI (5153-00004A), and AMAOS (7076-00121B). ...
arXiv:2109.06736v1
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Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society
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2021
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To address this gap, we release a large dataset of 16K manually annotated tweets for fine-grained disinformation analysis that (i) focuses on COVID-19, (ii) combines the perspectives and the interests ...
Finally, we show strong evaluation results using pretrained Transformers, thus confirming the practical utility of the dataset in monolingual vs. multilingual, and single task vs. multitask settings. ...
This publication was also partially made possible by the innovation grant No. 21 -Misinformation and Social Networks Analysis in Qatar from Hamad Bin Khalifa University's (HBKU) Innovation Center. ...
arXiv:2005.00033v5
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Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
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2021
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This paper reviews relevant research on automated fact-checking covering both the claim detection and claim validation components. ...
Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have contributed to the task by building fact-checking datasets, devising automated fact-checking pipelines and proposing NLP methods to further ...
Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/V048597/1). Xia Zeng is funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Amani S. ...
arXiv:2109.11427v1
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That is a Known Lie: Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims
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2020
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As a result and over time, a large number of fact-checked claims have been accumulated, which increases the likelihood that a new claim in social media or a new statement by a politician might have already ...
As manual fact-checking is very time-consuming (and fully automatic fact-checking has credibility issues), it is important to try to save this effort and to avoid wasting time on claims that have already ...
Acknowledgments This research is part of the Tanbih project, 14 which aims to limit the effect of 'fake news," disinformation, propaganda, and media bias by making users aware of what they are reading. ...
arXiv:2005.06058v1
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SU-NLP at CheckThat! 2021: Check-Worthiness of Turkish Tweets
2021
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
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We propose an ensemble of BERT models which ranked the second best in terms of MAP score. ...
In order to prevent this disinformation spread, automated fact checking systems that identify and verify claims are needed. ...
2020 Task 1, the identification of checkworthy claims, was carried out in English and Arabic languages [4] . ...
dblp:conf/clef/CarikY21
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Overview of CheckThat! 2020 English: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
2020
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
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and detecting previously fact-checked claims. ...
A total of 18 teams participated in the English tasks, and most submissions managed to achieve sizable improvements over the baselines using models based on BERT, LSTMs, and CNNs. ...
Acknowledgments This research is part of the Tanbih project, developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU and MIT-CSAIL, which aims to limit the effect of "fake news", propaganda, and media ...
dblp:conf/clef/ShaarNBABEHSHMN20
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Automated fact‐checking: A survey
2021
Language and Linguistics Compass
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This article reviews relevant research on automated fact-checking covering both the claim detection and claim validation components. ...
Researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have contributed to the task by building fact-checking datasets, devising automated fact-checking pipelines and proposing NLP methods to further ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/ V048597/1). Xia Zeng was funded by China Scholarship Council. Amani S. ...
doi:10.1111/lnc3.12438
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Computational fact checking
2018
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
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The term was born in the journalist community and referred the process of verifying and ensuring the accuracy of published media content; since 2012, however, it has increasingly focused on the analysis ...
Thus, a very lively area of digital content management research has taken up these problems and works to propose foundations (models), algorithms, and implement them through concrete tools. ...
Text analysis can be used to detect trends in news, extract the source of claims [23, 34, 33] or recognize rumors [6] . ...
doi:10.14778/3229863.3229880
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A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking
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2022
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In this process, we present an overview of existing datasets and models, aiming to unify the various definitions given and identify common concepts. ...
predict the veracity of claims. ...
The authors would like to thank Rami Aly, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Nedjma Ousidhoum, and James Thorne for useful comments and suggestions. ...
arXiv:2108.11896v3
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Towards Automated Factchecking: Developing an Annotation Schema and Benchmark for Consistent Automated Claim Detection
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2020
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In an effort to assist factcheckers in the process of factchecking, we tackle the claim detection task, one of the necessary stages prior to determining the veracity of a claim. ...
Leveraging the expertise of professional factcheckers, we develop an annotation schema and a benchmark for automated claim detection that is more consistent across time, topics and annotators than previous ...
This work has been partially funded by Open Society Foundation (OR2017-35395) and Omidyar Network. ...
arXiv:1809.08193v2
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EvolutionTeam at CLEF2020 - CheckThat! lab : Integration of Linguistic and Sentimental Features in a Fake News Detection Approach
2020
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
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lab, three tasks run in Arabic, namely check-worthiness on tweets, evidence retrieval, and claim verification that corresponds respectively to task1, task3, and task4. ...
The third task is a classification task based on sentiment and linguistic features to compute the overlap and the contradiction between the claim and the detected check worthy sentences. ...
[5] presented an automatic fact-checking system to detect fake news based on a neural ranking model to check sentence worthiness. ...
dblp:conf/clef/TouahriM20
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NewsClaims: A New Benchmark for Claim Detection from News with Attribute Knowledge
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2022
arXiv
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We redefine the claim detection problem to include extraction of additional background attributes related to each claim and release 889 claims annotated over 143 news articles. ...
In this work, we present NewsClaims, a new benchmark for knowledge-aware claim detection in the news domain. ...
Results and Analysis: Table 6 shows that automatic models perform considerably worse than humans for claimer detection. ...
arXiv:2112.08544v3
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