Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER)

Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor 2026-03 Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco text conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 fever-2026-1 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.0 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.0/ Weakly-supervised Argument Mining with Boundary Refinement and Relation Denoising Wei Sun author Mingxiao Li author Jesse Davis author Elena Cabrio author Serena Villata author Marie-Francine Moens author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 sun-etal-2026-weakly 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.1/ 2026-03 1 12 POaaS: Minimal-Edit Prompt Optimization as a Service to Lift Accuracy and Cut Hallucinations on On-Device sLLMs Jungwoo Shim author Dae Won Kim author Sunwook Kim author Sooyoung Kim author Myungcheol Lee author Jaegeun Cha author Hyunhwa Choi author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 shim-etal-2026-poaas 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.2/ 2026-03 13 27 Evidence Grounding vs. Memorization: Why Neural Semantics Matter for Knowledge Graph Fact Verification Ankit Kumar Upadhyay author John S Erickson author Deborah L McGuinness author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 upadhyay-etal-2026-evidence 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.3/ 2026-03 28 46 The Energy of Falsehood: Detecting Hallucinations via Diffusion Model Likelihoods Arpit Singh Gautam author Kailash Talreja author Saurabh Jha author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 gautam-etal-2026-energy 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.4/ 2026-03 47 58 BiCon-Gate: Consistency-Gated De-colloquialisation for Dialogue Fact-Checking Hyunkyung Park author Arkaitz Zubiaga author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 park-zubiaga-2026-bicon 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.5/ 2026-03 59 73 The Automatic Verification of Image-Text Claims (AVerImaTeC) Shared Task Rui Cao author Yulong Chen author Zhenyun Deng author Michael Schlichtkrull author Andreas Vlachos author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 cao-etal-2026-automatic 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.6/ 2026-03 74 90 Take It All: Ensemble Retrieval for Multimodal Evidence Aggregation Max Upravitelev author Veronika Solopova author Premtim Sahitaj author Ariana Sahitaj author Charlott Jakob author Sebastian Möller author Vera Schmitt author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 upravitelev-etal-2026-take 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.7/ 2026-03 91 107 REVEAL: Retrieval-Enhanced Verification for Multimodal Fact-Checking Amina Tariq author Yova Kementchedjhieva author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 tariq-kementchedjhieva-2026-reveal 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.8/ 2026-03 108 113 VILLAIN at AVerImaTeC: Verifying Image–Text Claims via Multi-Agent Collaboration Jaeyoon Jung author Yejun Yoon author Seunghyun Yoon author Kunwoo Park author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 jung-etal-2026-villain 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.9/ 2026-03 114 126 Selective Multimodal Retrieval for Automated Verification of Image–Text Claims Yoana Tsoneva author Paul-Conrad Feig author Jiaao Li author Veronika Solopova author Neda Foroutan author Arthur Hilbert author Vera Schmitt author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco conference publication 979-8-89176-365-4 tsoneva-etal-2026-selective 10.18653/v1/2026.fever-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2026.fever-1.10/ 2026-03 127 135 AIC CTU@AVerImaTeC: dual-retriever RAG for image-text fact checking Herbert Ullrich author Jan Drchal author 2026-03 text Proceedings of the Ninth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER) Mubashara Akhtar editor Rami Aly editor Rui Cao editor Christos Christodoulopoulos editor Oana Cocarascu editor Zhijiang Guo editor Arpit Mittal editor Michael Schlichtkrull editor James Thorne editor Andreas Vlachos editor Association for Computational Linguistics Rabat, Morocco 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