FACTS&EVIDENCE: An Interactive Tool for Transparent Fine-Grained Factual Verification of Machine-Generated Text

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Main Authors: Boonsanong, Varich, Balachandran, Vidhisha, Han, Xiaochuang, Feng, Shangbin, Wang, Lucy Lu, Tsvetkov, Yulia
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author Boonsanong, Varich
Balachandran, Vidhisha
Han, Xiaochuang
Feng, Shangbin
Wang, Lucy Lu
Tsvetkov, Yulia
author_facet Boonsanong, Varich
Balachandran, Vidhisha
Han, Xiaochuang
Feng, Shangbin
Wang, Lucy Lu
Tsvetkov, Yulia
contents With the widespread consumption of AI-generated content, there has been an increased focus on developing automated tools to verify the factual accuracy of such content. However, prior research and tools developed for fact verification treat it as a binary classification or a linear regression problem. Although this is a useful mechanism as part of automatic guardrails in systems, we argue that such tools lack transparency in the prediction reasoning and diversity in source evidence to provide a trustworthy user experience. We develop Facts&Evidence - an interactive and transparent tool for user-driven verification of complex text. The tool facilitates the intricate decision-making involved in fact-verification, presenting its users a breakdown of complex input texts to visualize the credibility of individual claims along with an explanation of model decisions and attribution to multiple, diverse evidence sources. Facts&Evidence aims to empower consumers of machine-generated text and give them agency to understand, verify, selectively trust and use such text.
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spellingShingle FACTS&EVIDENCE: An Interactive Tool for Transparent Fine-Grained Factual Verification of Machine-Generated Text
Boonsanong, Varich
Balachandran, Vidhisha
Han, Xiaochuang
Feng, Shangbin
Wang, Lucy Lu
Tsvetkov, Yulia
Computation and Language
With the widespread consumption of AI-generated content, there has been an increased focus on developing automated tools to verify the factual accuracy of such content. However, prior research and tools developed for fact verification treat it as a binary classification or a linear regression problem. Although this is a useful mechanism as part of automatic guardrails in systems, we argue that such tools lack transparency in the prediction reasoning and diversity in source evidence to provide a trustworthy user experience. We develop Facts&Evidence - an interactive and transparent tool for user-driven verification of complex text. The tool facilitates the intricate decision-making involved in fact-verification, presenting its users a breakdown of complex input texts to visualize the credibility of individual claims along with an explanation of model decisions and attribution to multiple, diverse evidence sources. Facts&Evidence aims to empower consumers of machine-generated text and give them agency to understand, verify, selectively trust and use such text.
title FACTS&EVIDENCE: An Interactive Tool for Transparent Fine-Grained Factual Verification of Machine-Generated Text
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14797