Automated fact‐checking: A survey

X Zeng, AS Abumansour… - Language and Linguistics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As online false information continues to grow, automated fact‐checking has gained an
increasing amount of attention in recent years. Researchers in the field of Natural Language …

Fighting post-truth using natural language processing: A review and open challenges

E Saquete, D Tomás, P Moreda… - Expert systems with …, 2020 - Elsevier
Post-truth is a term that describes a distorting phenomenon that aims to manipulate public
opinion and behavior. One of its key engines is the spread of Fake News. Nowadays most …

A survey on automated fact-checking

Z Guo, M Schlichtkrull, A Vlachos - Transactions of the Association for …, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Fact-checking has become increasingly important due to the speed with which both
information and misinformation can spread in the modern media ecosystem. Therefore …

AlignScore: Evaluating factual consistency with a unified alignment function

Y Zha, Y Yang, R Li, Z Hu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.16739, 2023 - arxiv.org
Many text generation applications require the generated text to be factually consistent with
input information. Automatic evaluation of factual consistency is challenging. Previous work …

TRUE: Re-evaluating factual consistency evaluation

O Honovich, R Aharoni, J Herzig, H Taitelbaum… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies,
hindering their real-world applicability. Automatic factual consistency evaluation may help …

KILT: a benchmark for knowledge intensive language tasks

F Petroni, A Piktus, A Fan, P Lewis, M Yazdani… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Challenging problems such as open-domain question answering, fact checking, slot filling
and entity linking require access to large, external knowledge sources. While some models …

Efficient methods for natural language processing: A survey

M Treviso, JU Lee, T Ji, B Aken, Q Cao… - Transactions of the …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Recent work in natural language processing (NLP) has yielded appealing results from
scaling model parameters and training data; however, using only scale to improve …

Fact-checking complex claims with program-guided reasoning

L Pan, X Wu, X Lu, AT Luu, WY Wang, MY Kan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Fact-checking real-world claims often requires collecting multiple pieces of evidence and
applying complex multi-step reasoning. In this paper, we present Program-Guided Fact …

Adversarial NLI: A new benchmark for natural language understanding

Y Nie, A Williams, E Dinan, M Bansal, J Weston… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative,
adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this …

Automated fact-checking for assisting human fact-checkers

P Nakov, D Corney, M Hasanain, F Alam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from
professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians …