HoVer: A Dataset for Many-Hop Fact Extraction And Claim Verification

Yichen Jiang, Shikha Bordia, Zheng Zhong, Charles Dognin, Maneesh Singh, Mohit Bansal


Abstract
We introduce HoVer (HOppy VERification), a dataset for many-hop evidence extraction and fact verification. It challenges models to extract facts from several Wikipedia articles that are relevant to a claim and classify whether the claim is supported or not-supported by the facts. In HoVer, the claims require evidence to be extracted from as many as four English Wikipedia articles and embody reasoning graphs of diverse shapes. Moreover, most of the 3/4-hop claims are written in multiple sentences, which adds to the complexity of understanding long-range dependency relations such as coreference. We show that the performance of an existing state-of-the-art semantic-matching model degrades significantly on our dataset as the number of reasoning hops increases, hence demonstrating the necessity of many-hop reasoning to achieve strong results. We hope that the introduction of this challenging dataset and the accompanying evaluation task will encourage research in many-hop fact retrieval and information verification.
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2020.findings-emnlp.309
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
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November
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2020
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Online
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Trevor Cohn, Yulan He, Yang Liu
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3441–3460
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.309
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.findings-emnlp.309
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Yichen Jiang, Shikha Bordia, Zheng Zhong, Charles Dognin, Maneesh Singh, and Mohit Bansal. 2020. HoVer: A Dataset for Many-Hop Fact Extraction And Claim Verification. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, pages 3441–3460, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HoVer: A Dataset for Many-Hop Fact Extraction And Claim Verification (Jiang et al., Findings 2020)
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Data
HoVerFEVER