Zero-Shot Learning and Key Points Are All You Need for Automated Fact-Checking

Mohammad Ghiasvand Mohammadkhani, Ali Ghiasvand Mohammadkhani, Hamid Beigy


Abstract
Automated fact-checking is an important task because determining the accurate status of a proposed claim within the vast amount of information available online is a critical challenge. This challenge requires robust evaluation to prevent the spread of false information. Modern large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated high capability in performing a diverse range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. By utilizing proper prompting strategies, their versatility—due to their understanding of large context sizes and zero-shot learning ability—enables them to simulate human problem-solving intuition and move towards being an alternative to humans for solving problems. In this work, we introduce a straightforward framework based on _**Z**ero-**S**hot **L**earning_ and _**Ke**y **P**oints_ (ZSL-KeP) for automated fact-checking, which despite its simplicity, performed well on the AVeriTeC shared task dataset by robustly improving the baseline and achieving 10th place.
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2024.fever-1.9
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Proceedings of the Seventh Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Michael Schlichtkrull, Yulong Chen, Chenxi Whitehouse, Zhenyun Deng, Mubashara Akhtar, Rami Aly, Zhijiang Guo, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Oana Cocarascu, Arpit Mittal, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos
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Mohammad Ghiasvand Mohammadkhani, Ali Ghiasvand Mohammadkhani, and Hamid Beigy. 2024. Zero-Shot Learning and Key Points Are All You Need for Automated Fact-Checking. In Proceedings of the Seventh Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER), pages 86–90, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Zero-Shot Learning and Key Points Are All You Need for Automated Fact-Checking (Mohammadkhani et al., FEVER 2024)
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