An Annotation Scheme for Factuality and its Application to Parliamentary Proceedings

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Main Authors: Goldin, Gili, Wigderson, Shira, Rabinovich, Ella, Wintner, Shuly
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Published: 2025
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author Goldin, Gili
Wigderson, Shira
Rabinovich, Ella
Wintner, Shuly
author_facet Goldin, Gili
Wigderson, Shira
Rabinovich, Ella
Wintner, Shuly
contents Factuality assesses the extent to which a language utterance relates to real-world information; it determines whether utterances correspond to facts, possibilities, or imaginary situations, and as such, it is instrumental for fact checking. Factuality is a complex notion that relies on multiple linguistic signals, and has been studied in various disciplines. We present a complex, multi-faceted annotation scheme of factuality that combines concepts from a variety of previous works. We developed the scheme for Hebrew, but we trust that it can be adapted to other languages. We also present a set of almost 5,000 sentences in the domain of parliamentary discourse that we manually annotated according to this scheme. We report on inter-annotator agreement, and experiment with various approaches to automatically predict (some features of) the scheme, in order to extend the annotation to a large corpus.
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spellingShingle An Annotation Scheme for Factuality and its Application to Parliamentary Proceedings
Goldin, Gili
Wigderson, Shira
Rabinovich, Ella
Wintner, Shuly
Computation and Language
Factuality assesses the extent to which a language utterance relates to real-world information; it determines whether utterances correspond to facts, possibilities, or imaginary situations, and as such, it is instrumental for fact checking. Factuality is a complex notion that relies on multiple linguistic signals, and has been studied in various disciplines. We present a complex, multi-faceted annotation scheme of factuality that combines concepts from a variety of previous works. We developed the scheme for Hebrew, but we trust that it can be adapted to other languages. We also present a set of almost 5,000 sentences in the domain of parliamentary discourse that we manually annotated according to this scheme. We report on inter-annotator agreement, and experiment with various approaches to automatically predict (some features of) the scheme, in order to extend the annotation to a large corpus.
title An Annotation Scheme for Factuality and its Application to Parliamentary Proceedings
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26406