HybridFC: A Hybrid Fact-Checking Approach for Knowledge Graphs

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Main Authors: Qudus, Umair, Roeder, Michael, Saleem, Muhammad, Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
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author Qudus, Umair
Roeder, Michael
Saleem, Muhammad
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
author_facet Qudus, Umair
Roeder, Michael
Saleem, Muhammad
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
contents We consider fact-checking approaches that aim to predict the veracity of assertions in knowledge graphs. Five main categories of fact-checking approaches for knowledge graphs have been proposed in the recent literature, of which each is subject to partially overlapping limitations. In particular, current text-based approaches are limited by manual feature engineering. Path-based and rule-based approaches are limited by their exclusive use of knowledge graphs as background knowledge, and embedding-based approaches suffer from low accuracy scores on current fact-checking tasks. We propose a hybrid approach -- dubbed HybridFC -- that exploits the diversity of existing categories of fact-checking approaches within an ensemble learning setting to achieve a significantly better prediction performance. In particular, our approach outperforms the state of the art by 0.14 to 0.27 in terms of Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve on the FactBench dataset. Our code is open-source and can be found at https://github.com/dice-group/HybridFC.
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spellingShingle HybridFC: A Hybrid Fact-Checking Approach for Knowledge Graphs
Qudus, Umair
Roeder, Michael
Saleem, Muhammad
Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
We consider fact-checking approaches that aim to predict the veracity of assertions in knowledge graphs. Five main categories of fact-checking approaches for knowledge graphs have been proposed in the recent literature, of which each is subject to partially overlapping limitations. In particular, current text-based approaches are limited by manual feature engineering. Path-based and rule-based approaches are limited by their exclusive use of knowledge graphs as background knowledge, and embedding-based approaches suffer from low accuracy scores on current fact-checking tasks. We propose a hybrid approach -- dubbed HybridFC -- that exploits the diversity of existing categories of fact-checking approaches within an ensemble learning setting to achieve a significantly better prediction performance. In particular, our approach outperforms the state of the art by 0.14 to 0.27 in terms of Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve on the FactBench dataset. Our code is open-source and can be found at https://github.com/dice-group/HybridFC.
title HybridFC: A Hybrid Fact-Checking Approach for Knowledge Graphs
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06692