HealthFC: Verifying Health Claims with Evidence-Based Medical Fact-Checking

arXiv:2309.08503v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In the digital age, seeking health advice on the Internet has become a common practice. At the same time, determining the trustworthiness of online medical content is increasingly challenging. Fact-checking has emerged as an approach to assess the veracity of factual claims using evidence from credible knowledge sources. To help advance automated Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for this task, in this paper we introduce a novel dataset HealthFC. It consists of 750 health-related claims …

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