WhatTheWikiFact: Fact-Checking Claims Against Wikipedia
arXiv:2105.00826
Abstract
The rise of Internet has made it a major source of information. Unfortunately, not all information online is true, and thus a number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched, both manual and automatic, to deal with the problem. Here, we present our contribution in this regard: \emph{WhatTheWikiFact}, a system for automatic claim verification using Wikipedia. The system can predict the veracity of an input claim, and it further shows the evidence it has retrieved as part of the verification process. It shows confidence scores and a list of relevant Wikipedia articles, together with detailed information about each article, including the phrase used to retrieve it, the most relevant sentences extracted from it and their stance with respect to the input claim, as well as the associated probabilities. The system supports several languages: Bulgarian, English, and Russian.
arXiv commentfact-checking, veracity, factuality, stance detection, evidence retrieval, fake news, FEVER, Wikipedia
References in corpus (10)
- The science of fake news
- NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
- Hoaxy: A Platform for Tracking Online Misinformation
- TabFact: A Large-scale Dataset for Table-based Fact Verification
- A simple but tough-to-beat baseline for the Fake News Challenge stance detection task
- The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans
- A Retrospective Analysis of the Fake News Challenge Stance Detection Task
- Overview of the CLEF--2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
- A Survey on Predicting the Factuality and the Bias of News Media
- FAKTA: An Automatic End-to-End Fact Checking System