FacTeR-Check: Semi-automated fact-checking through Semantic Similarity and Natural Language Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14532v1
• Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:44:54 GMT
• Title: FacTeR-Check: Semi-automated fact-checking through Semantic Similarity and Natural Language Inference
• Authors: Alejandro Mart\'in and Javier Huertas-Tato and \'Alvaro Huertas-Garc\'ia and Guillermo Villar-Rodr\'iguez and David Camacho
• Abstract summary: FacTeR-Check enables retrieving fact-checked information, unchecked claims verification and tracking dangerous information over social media. The architecture is validated using a new dataset called NLI19-SP that is publicly released with COVID-19 related hoaxes and tweets from Spanish social media. Our results show state-of-the-art performance on the individual benchmarks, as well as producing useful analysis of the evolution over time of 61 different hoaxes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Our society produces and shares overwhelming amounts of information through the Online Social Networks (OSNs). Within this environment, misinformation and disinformation have proliferated, becoming a public safety concern on every country. Allowing the public and professionals to efficiently find reliable evidence about the factual veracity of a claim is crucial to mitigate this harmful spread. To this end, we propose FacTeR-Check, a multilingual architecture for semi-automated fact-checking that can be used for either the general public but also useful for fact-checking organisations. FacTeR-Check enables retrieving fact-checked information, unchecked claims verification and tracking dangerous information over social media. This architectures involves several modules developed to evaluate semantic similarity, to calculate natural language inference and to retrieve information from Online Social Networks. The union of all these modules builds a semi-automated fact-checking tool able of verifying new claims, to extract related evidence, and to track the evolution of a hoax on a OSN. While individual modules are validated on related benchmarks (mainly MSTS and SICK), the complete architecture is validated using a new dataset called NLI19-SP that is publicly released with COVID-19 related hoaxes and tweets from Spanish social media. Our results show state-of-the-art performance on the individual benchmarks, as well as producing useful analysis of the evolution over time of 61 different hoaxes.

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