VERITAS-NLI : Validation and Extraction of Reliable Information Through Automated Scraping and Natural Language Inference

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Autori principali: Shah, Arjun, Shah, Hetansh, Bafna, Vedica, Khandor, Charmi, Nair, Sindhu
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author Shah, Arjun
Shah, Hetansh
Bafna, Vedica
Khandor, Charmi
Nair, Sindhu
author_facet Shah, Arjun
Shah, Hetansh
Bafna, Vedica
Khandor, Charmi
Nair, Sindhu
contents In today's day and age where information is rapidly spread through online platforms, the rise of fake news poses an alarming threat to the integrity of public discourse, societal trust, and reputed news sources. Classical machine learning and Transformer-based models have been extensively studied for the task of fake news detection, however they are hampered by their reliance on training data and are unable to generalize on unseen headlines. To address these challenges, we propose our novel solution, leveraging web-scraping techniques and Natural Language Inference (NLI) models to retrieve external knowledge necessary for verifying the accuracy of a headline. Our system is evaluated on a diverse self-curated evaluation dataset spanning over multiple news channels and broad domains. Our best performing pipeline achieves an accuracy of 84.3% surpassing the best classical Machine Learning model by 33.3% and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) by 31.0% . This highlights the efficacy of combining dynamic web-scraping with Natural Language Inference to find support for a claimed headline in the corresponding externally retrieved knowledge for the task of fake news detection.
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spellingShingle VERITAS-NLI : Validation and Extraction of Reliable Information Through Automated Scraping and Natural Language Inference
Shah, Arjun
Shah, Hetansh
Bafna, Vedica
Khandor, Charmi
Nair, Sindhu
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.1; I.2.7
In today's day and age where information is rapidly spread through online platforms, the rise of fake news poses an alarming threat to the integrity of public discourse, societal trust, and reputed news sources. Classical machine learning and Transformer-based models have been extensively studied for the task of fake news detection, however they are hampered by their reliance on training data and are unable to generalize on unseen headlines. To address these challenges, we propose our novel solution, leveraging web-scraping techniques and Natural Language Inference (NLI) models to retrieve external knowledge necessary for verifying the accuracy of a headline. Our system is evaluated on a diverse self-curated evaluation dataset spanning over multiple news channels and broad domains. Our best performing pipeline achieves an accuracy of 84.3% surpassing the best classical Machine Learning model by 33.3% and Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) by 31.0% . This highlights the efficacy of combining dynamic web-scraping with Natural Language Inference to find support for a claimed headline in the corresponding externally retrieved knowledge for the task of fake news detection.
title VERITAS-NLI : Validation and Extraction of Reliable Information Through Automated Scraping and Natural Language Inference
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.1; I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09455