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Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims

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arxiv 2010.09926 v1 pith:IE7YCZN7 submitted 2020-10-19 cs.CL cs.AI

Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims

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keywords claimsfact-checkingexpertiseexplainableautomatedcaseexplanationhealth
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Fact-checking is the task of verifying the veracity of claims by assessing their assertions against credible evidence. The vast majority of fact-checking studies focus exclusively on political claims. Very little research explores fact-checking for other topics, specifically subject matters for which expertise is required. We present the first study of explainable fact-checking for claims which require specific expertise. For our case study we choose the setting of public health. To support this case study we construct a new dataset PUBHEALTH of 11.8K claims accompanied by journalist crafted, gold standard explanations (i.e., judgments) to support the fact-check labels for claims. We explore two tasks: veracity prediction and explanation generation. We also define and evaluate, with humans and computationally, three coherence properties of explanation quality. Our results indicate that, by training on in-domain data, gains can be made in explainable, automated fact-checking for claims which require specific expertise.

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