Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh


2020

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Self-Supervised Claim Identification for Automated Fact Checking
Archita Pathak | Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh | Rohini Srihari
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)

We propose a novel, attention-based self-supervised approach to identify “claim-worthy” sentences in a fake news article, an important first step in automated fact-checking. We leverage aboutness of headline and content using attention mechanism for this task. The identified claims can be used for downstream task of claim verification for which we are releasing a benchmark dataset of manually selected compelling articles with veracity labels and associated evidence. This work goes beyond stylistic analysis to identifying content that influences reader belief. Experiments with three datasets show the strength of our model.