XFEVER: Exploring Fact Verification across Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16278v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 01:20:17 GMT
• Title: XFEVER: Exploring Fact Verification across Languages
• Authors: Yi-Chen Chang, Canasai Kruengkrai, Junichi Yamagishi
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces the Cross-lingual Fact Extraction and VERification dataset designed for benchmarking the fact verification models across different languages. We constructed it by translating the claim and evidence texts of the Fact Extraction and VERification dataset into six languages. The training and development sets were translated using machine translation, whereas the test set includes texts translated by professional translators and machine-translated texts.
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• Abstract: This paper introduces the Cross-lingual Fact Extraction and VERification (XFEVER) dataset designed for benchmarking the fact verification models across different languages. We constructed it by translating the claim and evidence texts of the Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER) dataset into six languages. The training and development sets were translated using machine translation, whereas the test set includes texts translated by professional translators and machine-translated texts. Using the XFEVER dataset, two cross-lingual fact verification scenarios, zero-shot learning and translate-train learning, are defined, and baseline models for each scenario are also proposed in this paper. Experimental results show that the multilingual language model can be used to build fact verification models in different languages efficiently. However, the performance varies by language and is somewhat inferior to the English case. We also found that we can effectively mitigate model miscalibration by considering the prediction similarity between the English and target languages. The XFEVER dataset, code, and model checkpoints are available at https://github.com/nii-yamagishilab/xfever.

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