Fact Checking in Community Forums

Understand

Community Question Answering (cQA) forums are very popular nowadays, as they represent effective means for communities around particular topics to share information.

• Unfortunately, this information is not always factual.
• Thus, here we explore a new dimension in the context of cQA, which has been ignored so far: checking the veracity of answers to particular questions in cQA forums.
• As this is a new problem, we create a specialized dataset for it.