MetaSumPerceiver: Multimodal Multi-Document Evidence Summarization for Fact-Checking

Ting-Chih Chen, Chia-Wei Tang, Chris Thomas


Abstract
Fact-checking real-world claims often requires reviewing multiple multimodal documents in order to assess the claim’s truthfulness, a highly laborious and time-consuming task. In this paper, we present a summarization model crafted to generate claim-specific summaries useful for fact-checking from multimodal multi-document datasets. The model takes inputs in the form of documents, images, and a claim, with the objective of assisting in fact-checking tasks. We introduce a dynamic perceiver-based model that is able to handle inputs from multiple modalities of arbitrary lengths. To train our model, we leverage a novel reinforcement learning-based entailment objective in order to generate summaries that provide evidence distinguishing between different truthfulness labels. To assess the efficacy of our approach, we conduct experiments on both an existing benchmark as well as a new dataset of multi-document claims which we contribute. Our approach outperforms the SOTA approach by 4.6% in the claim verification task on the MOCHEG dataset and demonstrates strong performance on our new Multi-News-Fact-Checking dataset.
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2024.acl-long.474
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Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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8742–8757
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Ting-Chih Chen, Chia-Wei Tang, and Chris Thomas. 2024. MetaSumPerceiver: Multimodal Multi-Document Evidence Summarization for Fact-Checking. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 8742–8757, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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