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cs.CL2025

Agent-based Automated Claim Matching with Instruction-following LLMs

Dina Pisarevskaya, Arkaitz Zubiaga

We present a novel agent-based approach for the automated claim matching task with instruction-following LLMs. We propose a two-step pipeline that first generates prompts with LLMs…

cs.CL2025

ALHD: A Large-Scale and Multigenre Benchmark Dataset for Arabic LLM-Generated Text Detection

Ali Khairallah, Arkaitz Zubiaga

We introduce ALHD, the first large-scale comprehensive Arabic dataset explicitly designed to distinguish between human- and LLM-generated texts. ALHD spans three genres (news, soci…

cs.AI2025

Evolution of meta's llama models and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models: a survey

Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Seyedali Mirjalili +5

This review surveys the rapid evolution of Meta AI's LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) series - from LLaMA 1 through LLaMA 4 and the specialized parameter-efficient fine-tuning…

cs.CL2025

RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection

Yufeng Li, Arkaitz Zubiaga

The rapid spread of misinformation on social media underscores the need for scalable fact-checking tools. A key step is claim detection, which identifies statements that can be obj…

cs.CL2025

Towards Inclusive Toxic Content Moderation: Addressing Vulnerabilities to Adversarial Attacks in Toxicity Classifiers Tackling LLM-generated Content

Shaz Furniturewala, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Adversarial perturbations can reduce state-of-the-art toxicity classifiers to near-zero accuracy, yet existing defences treat models as black boxes. We apply mechanistic interpreta…

cs.CL2025

FineDialFact: A benchmark for Fine-grained Dialogue Fact Verification

Xiangyan Chen, Yufeng Li, Yujian Gan +2

Large language models are known to produce hallucinations - factually incorrect or fabricated information - which poses significant challenges for many natural language processing…

cs.CL2025

NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities, and Responsible Deployment

Antonia Karamolegkou, Angana Borah, Eunjung Cho +30

Natural language processing (NLP) now shapes many aspects of our world, yet its potential for positive social impact is underexplored. This paper surveys work in ``NLP for Social G…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

MultiClaimNet: A Massively Multilingual Dataset of Fact-Checked Claim Clusters

Rrubaa Panchendrarajan, Rubén Míguez, Arkaitz Zubiaga

In the context of fact-checking, claims are often repeated across various platforms and in different languages, which can benefit from a process that reduces this redundancy. While…

cs.CL2025

Understanding the Effects of RLHF on the Quality and Detectability of LLM-Generated Texts

Beining Xu, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on a range of downstream NLP tasks by generating text that closely resembles human writing. However, the ease…

cs.CL2025

Will I Get Hate Speech Predicting the Volume of Abusive Replies before Posting in Social Media

Raneem Alharthi, Rajwa Alharthi, Ravi Shekhar +2

Despite the growing body of research tackling offensive language in social media, this research is predominantly reactive, determining if content already posted in social media is…

cs.CL2025

Entity-aware Cross-lingual Claim Detection for Automated Fact-checking

Rrubaa Panchendrarajan, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Identifying claims requiring verification is a critical task in automated fact-checking, especially given the proliferation of misinformation on social media platforms. Despite not…

cs.CL2025

Zero-shot and Few-shot Learning with Instruction-following LLMs for Claim Matching in Automated Fact-checking

Dina Pisarevskaya, Arkaitz Zubiaga

The claim matching (CM) task can benefit an automated fact-checking pipeline by putting together claims that can be resolved with the same fact-check. In this work, we are the firs…

cs.CL2025

ALPET: Active Few-shot Learning for Citation Worthiness Detection in Low-Resource Wikipedia Languages

Aida Halitaj, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Citation Worthiness Detection (CWD) consists in determining which sentences, within an article or collection, should be backed up with a citation to validate the information it pro…

cs.CL2025

Detecting harassment and defamation in cyberbullying with emotion-adaptive training

Peiling Yi, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Yunfei Long

Existing research on detecting cyberbullying incidents on social media has primarily concentrated on harassment and is typically approached as a binary classification task. However…