Distorted science communication harms individuals and society as it can lead to unhealthy
behavior change and decrease trust in scientific institutions. Given the rapidly increasing …

Given the recent proliferation of fake news online, fact-checking has emerged as a critical
defence against misinformation. Several fact-checking organisations are currently employed …

Biomedical claim verification fails if no evidence can be discovered. In these cases, the fact-
checking verdict remains unknown and the claim is unverifiable. To improve upon this, we …

The statement" The earth is flat" is factually inaccurate, but if someone truly believes and
argues in its favor, it is not deceptive. Research on deception detection and fact checking …

If a person firmly believes in a non-factual statement, such as" The Earth is flat", and argues
in its favor, there is no inherent intention to deceive. As the argumentation stems from …

Fact-check consumers can have different preferences regarding the amount of text being
used for explaining the claim veracity verdict. Dynamically adapting the size of a fact-check …

We propose an ontology enhanced model for sentence based claim detection. We fused
ontology embeddings from a knowledge base with BERT sentence embeddings to perform …

This early-stage PhD paper introduces the intended research of the author's PhD study. The
research is focused on explaining misleading claims, which have been fact-checked, using …

Expressing opinions and interacting with others on the Web has led to an abundance of
online discourse: claims and viewpoints on controversial topics, their sources and contexts …

Expressing opinions and interacting with others on the Web has led to the production of an
abundance of online discourse data, such as claims and viewpoints on controversial topics …