Generating Fact Checking Explanations

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Abstract

Most existing work on automated fact checking is concerned with predicting the veracity of claims based on metadata, social network spread, language used in claims, and, more recently, evidence supporting or denying claims. A crucial piece of the puzzle that is still missing is to understand how to automate the most elaborate part of the process – generating justifications for verdicts on claims. This paper provides the first study of how these explanations can be generated automatically based on available claim context, and how this task can be modelled jointly with veracity prediction. Our results indicate that optimising both objectives at the same time, rather than training them separately, improves the performance of a fact checking system. The results of a manual evaluation further suggest that the informativeness, coverage and overall quality of the generated explanations are also improved in the multi-task model.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Titel: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ForlagAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publikationsdato2020
Sider7352-7364
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2020
Begivenhed58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Online
Varighed: 5 jul. 202010 jul. 2020

Konference

Konference58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ByOnline
Periode05/07/202010/07/2020

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