CheckIT! A Corpus of Expert Fact-checked Claims for Italian

Jacopo Gili*, Lucia Passaro, Tommaso Caselli

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Abstract

This paper introduces CheckIT!, a resource of expert fact-checked claims, filling a gap for the development of fact-checking pipelines in Italian. We further investigate the use of three state-of-the-art generative text models to create variations of claims in zero-shot settings as a data-augmentation strategy for the identification of previously fact-checked claims. Our results indicate that models struggles in varying the surface forms of the claims.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
EditorsFederico Boschetti, Gianluca E. Lebani, Bernardo Magnini, Nicole Novielli
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2023 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 30-Nov-20232-Dec-2023

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume3596
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it 2023
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period30/11/202302/12/2023

Keywords

  • Corpora
  • Data augmentation
  • Fact-checking
  • Generative AI Model Evaluation

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