3 papers
cs.CL2024
Understanding Fine-grained Distortions in Reports of Scientific Findings
Amelie Wührl, Dustin Wright, Roman Klinger +1
Distorted science communication harms individuals and society as it can lead to unhealthy behavior change and decrease trust in scientific institutions. Given the rapidly increasin…
cs.CL2024
What Makes Medical Claims (Un)Verifiable? Analyzing Entity and Relation Properties for Fact Verification
Amelie Wührl, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Lara Grimminger +1
Biomedical claim verification fails if no evidence can be discovered. In these cases, the fact-checking verdict remains unknown and the claim is unverifiable. To improve upon this,…
cs.CL2023
An Entity-based Claim Extraction Pipeline for Real-world Biomedical Fact-checking
Amelie Wührl, Lara Grimminger, Roman Klinger
Existing fact-checking models for biomedical claims are typically trained on synthetic or well-worded data and hardly transfer to social media content. This mismatch can be mitigat…