Determining the Credibility of Science Communication

Isabelle Augenstein


Abstract
Most work on scholarly document processing assumes that the information processed is trust-worthy and factually correct. However, this is not always the case. There are two core challenges, which should be addressed: 1) ensuring that scientific publications are credible – e.g. that claims are not made without supporting evidence, and that all relevant supporting evidence is provided; and 2) that scientific findings are not misrepresented, distorted or outright misreported when communicated by journalists or the general public. I will present some first steps towards addressing these problems and outline remaining challenges.
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2021.sdp-1.1
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing
Month:
June
Year:
2021
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Online
Editors:
Iz Beltagy, Arman Cohan, Guy Feigenblat, Dayne Freitag, Tirthankar Ghosal, Keith Hall, Drahomira Herrmannova, Petr Knoth, Kyle Lo, Philipp Mayr, Robert M. Patton, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Anita de Waard, Kuansan Wang, Lucy Lu Wang
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sdp
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–6
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.sdp-1.1
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.sdp-1.1
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Isabelle Augenstein. 2021. Determining the Credibility of Science Communication. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing, pages 1–6, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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