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Main Authors: Zeng, Yirong, Ding, Xiao, Zhao, Yi, Li, Xiangyu, Zhang, Jie, Yao, Chao, Liu, Ting, Qin, Bing
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16662
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author Zeng, Yirong
Ding, Xiao
Zhao, Yi
Li, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jie
Yao, Chao
Liu, Ting
Qin, Bing
author_facet Zeng, Yirong
Ding, Xiao
Zhao, Yi
Li, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jie
Yao, Chao
Liu, Ting
Qin, Bing
contents Fact-checking is the task of verifying the factuality of a given claim by examining the available evidence. High-quality evidence plays a vital role in enhancing fact-checking systems and facilitating the generation of explanations that are understandable to humans. However, the provision of both sufficient and relevant evidence for explainable fact-checking systems poses a challenge. To tackle this challenge, we propose a method based on a Large Language Model to automatically retrieve and summarize evidence from the Web. Furthermore, we construct RU22Fact, a novel multilingual explainable fact-checking dataset on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022 of 16K samples, each containing real-world claims, optimized evidence, and referenced explanation. To establish a baseline for our dataset, we also develop an end-to-end explainable fact-checking system to verify claims and generate explanations. Experimental results demonstrate the prospect of optimized evidence in increasing fact-checking performance and also indicate the possibility of further progress in the end-to-end claim verification and explanation generation tasks.
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spellingShingle RU22Fact: Optimizing Evidence for Multilingual Explainable Fact-Checking on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Zeng, Yirong
Ding, Xiao
Zhao, Yi
Li, Xiangyu
Zhang, Jie
Yao, Chao
Liu, Ting
Qin, Bing
Computation and Language
Fact-checking is the task of verifying the factuality of a given claim by examining the available evidence. High-quality evidence plays a vital role in enhancing fact-checking systems and facilitating the generation of explanations that are understandable to humans. However, the provision of both sufficient and relevant evidence for explainable fact-checking systems poses a challenge. To tackle this challenge, we propose a method based on a Large Language Model to automatically retrieve and summarize evidence from the Web. Furthermore, we construct RU22Fact, a novel multilingual explainable fact-checking dataset on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022 of 16K samples, each containing real-world claims, optimized evidence, and referenced explanation. To establish a baseline for our dataset, we also develop an end-to-end explainable fact-checking system to verify claims and generate explanations. Experimental results demonstrate the prospect of optimized evidence in increasing fact-checking performance and also indicate the possibility of further progress in the end-to-end claim verification and explanation generation tasks.
title RU22Fact: Optimizing Evidence for Multilingual Explainable Fact-Checking on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16662