X-Fact: A New Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Fact Checking

Ashim Gupta, Vivek Srikumar


Abstract
In this work, we introduce : the largest publicly available multilingual dataset for factual verification of naturally existing real-world claims. The dataset contains short statements in 25 languages and is labeled for veracity by expert fact-checkers. The dataset includes a multilingual evaluation benchmark that measures both out-of-domain generalization, and zero-shot capabilities of the multilingual models. Using state-of-the-art multilingual transformer-based models, we develop several automated fact-checking models that, along with textual claims, make use of additional metadata and evidence from news stories retrieved using a search engine. Empirically, our best model attains an F-score of around 40%, suggesting that our dataset is a challenging benchmark for the evaluation of multilingual fact-checking models.
Anthology ID:
2021.acl-short.86
Volume:
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
August
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Chengqing Zong, Fei Xia, Wenjie Li, Roberto Navigli
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ACL | IJCNLP
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
675–682
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.86
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.acl-short.86
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Cite (ACL):
Ashim Gupta and Vivek Srikumar. 2021. X-Fact: A New Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Fact Checking. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 675–682, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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X-Fact: A New Benchmark Dataset for Multilingual Fact Checking (Gupta & Srikumar, ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
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Data
X-FactMultiFC