Task-Oriented Automatic Fact-Checking with Frame-Semantics

Jacob Devasier, Akshith Reddy Putta, Rishabh Mediratta, Chengkai Li


Abstract
We propose a novel paradigm for automatic fact-checking that leverages frame semantics to enhance the structured understanding of claims and guide the process of fact-checking them. To support this, we introduce a pilot dataset of real-world claims extracted from PolitiFact, specifically annotated for large-scale structured data. This dataset underpins two case studies: the first investigates voting-related claims using the Vote semantic frame, while the second explores various semantic frames based on data sources from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Our findings demonstrate the effectiveness of frame semantics in improving evidence retrieval and explainability for fact-checking. Finally, we conducted a survey of frames evoked in fact-checked claims, identifying high-impact frames to guide future work in this direction.
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2025.findings-acl.711
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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Jacob Devasier, Akshith Reddy Putta, Rishabh Mediratta, and Chengkai Li. 2025. Task-Oriented Automatic Fact-Checking with Frame-Semantics. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 13825–13842, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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