@inproceedings{naderi-hirst-2018-automated,
    title = "Automated Fact-Checking of Claims in Argumentative Parliamentary Debates",
    author = "Naderi, Nona  and
      Hirst, Graeme",
    editor = "Thorne, James  and
      Vlachos, Andreas  and
      Cocarascu, Oana  and
      Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Mittal, Arpit",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and {VER}ification ({FEVER})",
    month = nov,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Brussels, Belgium",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/W18-5509/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5509",
    pages = "60--65",
    abstract = "We present an automated approach to distinguish true, false, stretch, and dodge statements in questions and answers in the Canadian Parliament. We leverage the truthfulness annotations of a U.S. fact-checking corpus by training a neural net model and incorporating the prediction probabilities into our models. We find that in concert with other linguistic features, these probabilities can improve the multi-class classification results. We further show that dodge statements can be detected with an F1 measure as high as 82.57{\%} in binary classification settings."
}