Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims

Understand

Fact-checking is the task of verifying the veracity of claims by assessing their assertions against credible evidence.

• The vast majority of fact-checking studies focus exclusively on political claims.
• Very little research explores fact-checking for other topics, specifically subject matters for which expertise is required.
• We present the first study of explainable fact-checking for claims which require specific expertise.