Claim Detection for Automated Fact-checking: A Survey on Monolingual, Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Research

arXiv:2401.11969v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Automated fact-checking has drawn considerable attention over the past few decades due to the increase in the diffusion of misinformation on online platforms. This is often carried out as a sequence of tasks comprising (i) the detection of sentences circulating in online platforms which constitute claims needing verification, followed by (ii) the verification process of those claims. This survey focuses on the former, by discussing existing efforts towards detecting claims needing fact-checking, with a particular …

abstract arxiv attention automated claim cross-lingual cs.cl detection diffusion fact-checking misinformation multilingual online platforms platforms research survey tasks type