{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/fact-checking-in-community-forums","title":"Fact Checking in Community Forums","arxiv_id":"1803.03178","date":"2018-03-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Tsvetomila Mihaylova","Preslav Nakov","Lluis Marquez","Alberto Barron-Cedeno","Mitra Mohtarami","Georgi Karadzhov","James Glass"],"abstract":"Community Question Answering (cQA) forums are very popular nowadays, as they\nrepresent effective means for communities around particular topics to share\ninformation. Unfortunately, this information is not always factual. Thus, here\nwe explore a new dimension in the context of cQA, which has been ignored so\nfar: checking the veracity of answers to particular questions in cQA forums. As\nthis is a new problem, we create a specialized dataset for it. We further\npropose a novel multi-faceted model, which captures information from the answer\ncontent (what is said and how), from the author profile (who says it), from the\nrest of the community forum (where it is said), and from external authoritative\nsources of information (external support). Evaluation results show a MAP value\nof 86.54, which is 21 points absolute above the baseline.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03178v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03178v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"fact-checking-in-community-forums","repo_url":"https://github.com/qcri/QLFactChecking","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"fact-checking-in-community-forums","repo_url":"https://github.com/liupeng0606/E","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"fact-checking-in-community-forums","repo_url":"https://github.com/olabknbit/FactChecking","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"community-question-answering","task_name":"Community Question Answering"},{"task_slug":"fact-checking","task_name":"Fact Checking"},{"task_slug":"question-answering","task_name":"Question Answering"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1803.03178","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}