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title = "An Annotation Scheme for Factuality and Its Application to Parliamentary Proceedings",
author = "Goldin, Gili and
Wigderson, Shira and
Rabinovich, Ella and
Wintner, Shuly",
editor = "Angelova, Galia and
Kunilovskaya, Maria and
Escribe, Marie and
Mitkov, Ruslan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era",
month = sep,
year = "2025",
address = "Varna, Bulgaria",
publisher = "INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.ranlp-1.49/",
pages = "403--412",
abstract = "Factuality assesses the extent to which a language utterance relates to real-world information; it determines whether utterances correspond to facts, possibilities, or imaginary situations, and as such, it is instrumental for fact checking. Factuality is a complex notion that relies on multiple linguistic signals, and has been studied in various disciplines. We present a complex, multi-faceted annotation scheme of factuality that combines concepts from a variety of previous works. We developed the scheme for Hebrew, but we trust that it can be adapted to other languages. We also present a set of almost 5,000 sentences in the domain of parliamentary discourse that we manually annotated according to this scheme. We report on inter-annotator agreement, and experiment with various approaches to automatically predict (some features of) the scheme, in order to extend the annotation to a large corpus."
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%A Goldin, Gili
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%A Rabinovich, Ella
%A Wintner, Shuly
%Y Angelova, Galia
%Y Kunilovskaya, Maria
%Y Escribe, Marie
%Y Mitkov, Ruslan
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%D 2025
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%X Factuality assesses the extent to which a language utterance relates to real-world information; it determines whether utterances correspond to facts, possibilities, or imaginary situations, and as such, it is instrumental for fact checking. Factuality is a complex notion that relies on multiple linguistic signals, and has been studied in various disciplines. We present a complex, multi-faceted annotation scheme of factuality that combines concepts from a variety of previous works. We developed the scheme for Hebrew, but we trust that it can be adapted to other languages. We also present a set of almost 5,000 sentences in the domain of parliamentary discourse that we manually annotated according to this scheme. We report on inter-annotator agreement, and experiment with various approaches to automatically predict (some features of) the scheme, in order to extend the annotation to a large corpus.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.ranlp-1.49/
%P 403-412
Markdown (Informal)
[An Annotation Scheme for Factuality and Its Application to Parliamentary Proceedings](https://aclanthology.org/2025.ranlp-1.49/) (Goldin et al., RANLP 2025)
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