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.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.findings-acl.711
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Wanxiang Che, Joyce Nabende, Ekaterina Shutova, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
- Venues:
- Findings | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 13825–13842
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.findings-acl.711/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- Task-Oriented Automatic Fact-Checking with Frame-Semantics (Devasier et al., Findings 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-acl-25/2025.findings-acl.711.pdf