A review on fact extraction and verification

G Bekoulis, C Papagiannopoulou… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We study the fact-checking problem, which aims to identify the veracity of a given claim.
Specifically, we focus on the task of Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) and its …

COVID-fact: Fact extraction and verification of real-world claims on COVID-19 pandemic

A Saakyan, T Chakrabarty, S Muresan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03794, 2021 - arxiv.org
We introduce a FEVER-like dataset COVID-Fact of $4,086 $ claims concerning the COVID-
19 pandemic. The dataset contains claims, evidence for the claims, and contradictory claims …

HoVer: A dataset for many-hop fact extraction and claim verification

Y Jiang, S Bordia, Z Zhong, C Dognin, M Singh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
We introduce HoVer (HOppy VERification), a dataset for many-hop evidence extraction and
fact verification. It challenges models to extract facts from several Wikipedia articles that are …

Open-domain, content-based, multi-modal fact-checking of out-of-context images via online resources

S Abdelnabi, R Hasan, M Fritz - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Misinformation is now a major problem due to its potential high risks to our core democratic
and societal values and orders. Out-of-context misinformation is one of the easiest and …

DialFact: A benchmark for fact-checking in dialogue

P Gupta, CS Wu, W Liu, C Xiong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08222, 2021 - arxiv.org
Fact-checking is an essential tool to mitigate the spread of misinformation and
disinformation. We introduce the task of fact-checking in dialogue, which is a relatively …

Towards few-shot fact-checking via perplexity

N Lee, Y Bang, A Madotto, M Khabsa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Few-shot learning has drawn researchers' attention to overcome the problem of data
scarcity. Recently, large pre-trained language models have shown great performance in few …

Turning tables: Generating examples from semi-structured tables for endowing language models with reasoning skills

O Yoran, A Talmor, J Berant - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07261, 2021 - arxiv.org
Models pre-trained with a language modeling objective possess ample world knowledge
and language skills, but are known to struggle in tasks that require reasoning. In this work …

The dangers of underclaiming: Reasons for caution when reporting how NLP systems fail

SR Bowman - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.08300, 2021 - arxiv.org
Researchers in NLP often frame and discuss research results in ways that serve to
deemphasize the field's successes, often in response to the field's widespread hype. Though …

Generating label cohesive and well-formed adversarial claims

P Atanasova - Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex …, 2024 - Springer
Adversarial attacks reveal important vulnerabilities and flaws of trained models. One potent
type of attack are universal adversarial triggers, which are individual n-grams that, when …

Machine generation and detection of Arabic manipulated and fake news

EMB Nagoudi, AR Elmadany, M Abdul-Mageed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Fake news and deceptive machine-generated text are serious problems threatening modern
societies, including in the Arab world. This motivates work on detecting false and …