Explainable Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey

Neema Kotonya, Francesca Toni


Abstract
A number of exciting advances have been made in automated fact-checking thanks to increasingly larger datasets and more powerful systems, leading to improvements in the complexity of claims which can be accurately fact-checked. However, despite these advances, there are still desirable functionalities missing from the fact-checking pipeline. In this survey, we focus on the explanation functionality – that is fact-checking systems providing reasons for their predictions. We summarize existing methods for explaining the predictions of fact-checking systems and we explore trends in this topic. Further, we consider what makes for good explanations in this specific domain through a comparative analysis of existing fact-checking explanations against some desirable properties. Finally, we propose further research directions for generating fact-checking explanations, and describe how these may lead to improvements in the research area.
Anthology ID:
2020.coling-main.474
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Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Month:
December
Year:
2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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COLING
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5430–5443
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.474
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.474
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Neema Kotonya and Francesca Toni. 2020. Explainable Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5430–5443, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Explainable Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey (Kotonya & Toni, COLING 2020)
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https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2020.coling-main.474.pdf
Code
 neemakot/Fact-Checking-Survey
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FEVERLIAR