Ta'keed: The First Generative Fact-Checking System for Arabic Claims

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Hauptverfasser: Althabiti, Saud, Alsalka, Mohammad Ammar, Atwell, Eric
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author Althabiti, Saud
Alsalka, Mohammad Ammar
Atwell, Eric
author_facet Althabiti, Saud
Alsalka, Mohammad Ammar
Atwell, Eric
contents This paper introduces Ta'keed, an explainable Arabic automatic fact-checking system. While existing research often focuses on classifying claims as "True" or "False," there is a limited exploration of generating explanations for claim credibility, particularly in Arabic. Ta'keed addresses this gap by assessing claim truthfulness based on retrieved snippets, utilizing two main components: information retrieval and LLM-based claim verification. We compiled the ArFactEx, a testing gold-labelled dataset with manually justified references, to evaluate the system. The initial model achieved a promising F1 score of 0.72 in the classification task. Meanwhile, the system's generated explanations are compared with gold-standard explanations syntactically and semantically. The study recommends evaluating using semantic similarities, resulting in an average cosine similarity score of 0.76. Additionally, we explored the impact of varying snippet quantities on claim classification accuracy, revealing a potential correlation, with the model using the top seven hits outperforming others with an F1 score of 0.77.
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spellingShingle Ta'keed: The First Generative Fact-Checking System for Arabic Claims
Althabiti, Saud
Alsalka, Mohammad Ammar
Atwell, Eric
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
This paper introduces Ta'keed, an explainable Arabic automatic fact-checking system. While existing research often focuses on classifying claims as "True" or "False," there is a limited exploration of generating explanations for claim credibility, particularly in Arabic. Ta'keed addresses this gap by assessing claim truthfulness based on retrieved snippets, utilizing two main components: information retrieval and LLM-based claim verification. We compiled the ArFactEx, a testing gold-labelled dataset with manually justified references, to evaluate the system. The initial model achieved a promising F1 score of 0.72 in the classification task. Meanwhile, the system's generated explanations are compared with gold-standard explanations syntactically and semantically. The study recommends evaluating using semantic similarities, resulting in an average cosine similarity score of 0.76. Additionally, we explored the impact of varying snippet quantities on claim classification accuracy, revealing a potential correlation, with the model using the top seven hits outperforming others with an F1 score of 0.77.
title Ta'keed: The First Generative Fact-Checking System for Arabic Claims
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14067