SciTrue: Evidence-Grounded Claim Verification in Science

Neset Tan, Minghao Li, Mark Gahegan


Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have expanded the potential for AI-assisted scientific claim verification, yet existing systems often exhibit unverifiable attributions, shallow evidence mapping, and hallucinated citations. We present SciTrue, a claim verification system providing source-level accountability and evidence traceability. SciTrue links each claim component to explicit, verifiable scientific sources, enabling users to inspect and challenge model inferences, addressing limitations of both general-purpose and search-augmented LLMs. In a human evaluation of 300 attributions, SciTrue achieves high fidelity in summary traceability, attribution accuracy, and context alignment, substantially outperforming RAG-based baselines such as GPT-4o-search-preview and Perplexity Sonar Pro. These results underscore the importance of principled attribution and context-aware reasoning in AI-assisted scientific verification. A system demo is available at .
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2026.eacl-demo.27
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Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
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March
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2026
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Rabat, Marocco
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Danilo Croce, Jochen Leidner, Nafise Sadat Moosavi
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EACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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397–406
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-demo.27/
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Neset Tan, Minghao Li, and Mark Gahegan. 2026. SciTrue: Evidence-Grounded Claim Verification in Science. In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 397–406, Rabat, Marocco. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SciTrue: Evidence-Grounded Claim Verification in Science (Tan et al., EACL 2026)
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