Minimal Evidence Group Identification for Claim Verification

arXiv:2404.15588v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Claim verification in real-world settings (e.g. against a large collection of candidate evidences retrieved from the web) typically requires identifying and aggregating a complete set of evidence pieces that collectively provide full support to the claim. The problem becomes particularly challenging when there exists distinct sets of evidence that could be used to verify the claim from different perspectives. In this paper, we formally define and study the problem of identifying such minimal evidence groups …

abstract arxiv claim collection cs.cl evidence identification set support type verification web world