Automated Verification of Textual Claims

Project Information

AVeriTeC

Grant agreement ID: 865958

DOI

10.3030/865958

Project closed

EC signature date 3 February 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 982 824,00

EU contribution

€ 1 982 824,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Conference proceedings (27)

Explainable Assessment of Healthcare Articles with QA

Author(s): Alodie Boissonnet, Marzieh Saeidi, Vassilis Plachouras, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing, 2022
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.bionlp-1.1

Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles

Author(s): Pietro Lesci, Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, Andreas Vlachos, Tiago Pimentel
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Page(s) 15616-15635
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.834

Zero-Shot Fact Verification via Natural Logic and Large Language Models

Author(s): Marek Strong, Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024, Page(s) 17021-17035
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.991

Zero-Shot Fact-Checking with Semantic Triples and Knowledge Graphs

Author(s): Moy Yuan, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM 2024), 2024, Page(s) 105-115
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.kallm-1.11

PledgeTracker: A System for Monitoring the Fulfilment of Pledges

Author(s): Yulong Chen, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Zhenyun Deng, David Corney, Nasim Asl, Joshua Salisbury, Andrew Dudfield, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2025, Page(s) 839-850
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-demos.64

TSVer: A Benchmark for Fact Verification Against Time-Series Evidence

Author(s): Marek Strong, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025, Page(s) 29894-29914
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1519

FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information

Author(s): Rami Aly, Zhijiang Guo, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Oana Cocarascu, Arpit Mittal
Published in: Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks 1, NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021, December 2021, virtual, 2021
Publisher: Neural Information Processing Systems

The Automated Verification of Textual Claims (AVeriTeC) Shared Task

Author(s): Michael Schlichtkrull, Yulong Chen, Chenxi Whitehouse, Zhenyun Deng, Mubashara Akhtar, Rami Aly, Zhijiang Guo, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Oana Cocarascu, Arpit Mittal, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the Seventh Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER), 2024, Page(s) 1-26
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.fever-1.1

Varifocal Question Generation for Fact-checking

Author(s): Nedjma Djouhra Ousidhoum, Zhangdie Yuan, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022, Page(s) 2532--2544
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.163

The 2nd Automated Verification of Textual Claims (AVeriTeC) Shared Task: Open-weights, Reproducible and Efficient Systems

Author(s): Mubashara Akhtar, Rami Aly, Yulong Chen, Zhenyun Deng, Michael Schlichtkrull, Chenxi Whitehouse, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the Eighth Fact Extraction and VERification Workshop (FEVER), 2025, Page(s) 201-223
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.fever-1.15

Improving Zero-shot Sentence Decontextualisation with Content Selection and Planning

Author(s): Zhenyun Deng, Yulong Chen, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025, Page(s) 24783-24799
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1258

Automated Fact-Checking in Dialogue: Are Specialized Models Needed?

Author(s): Eric Chamoun, Marzieh Saeidi, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023, Page(s) 16009-16020
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.993

AVeriTeC: A Dataset for Real-world Claim Verification with Evidence from the Web

Author(s): Zhijiang Guo, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36, 2026, Page(s) 65128-65167
Publisher: Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, Inc. (NeurIPS)
DOI: 10.52202/075280-2842

Evidence-based Factual Error Correction

Author(s): Thorne, James and Vlachos, Andreas
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.256

Elastic weight consolidation for better bias inoculation

Author(s): Thorne, James and Vlachos, Andreas
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.82

Natural Logic-guided Autoregressive Multi-hop Document Retrieval for Fact Verification

Author(s): Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022, Page(s) 6123--6135
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.411

QA-NatVer: Question Answering for Natural Logic-based Fact Verification

Author(s): Rami Aly, Marek Strong, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023, Page(s) 8376-8391
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.521

The Intended Uses of Automated Fact-Checking Artefacts: Why, How and Who

Author(s): Michael Schlichtkrull, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023, Page(s) 8618-8642
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.577

FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information

Author(s): Rami Aly; Zhijiang Guo; Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull; James Thorne; Andreas Vlachos 0001; Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001; Oana Cocarascu; Arpit Mittal
Published in: Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Curran Associates
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.05707

Multimodal Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey

Author(s): Mubashara Akhtar, Michael Schlichtkrull, Zhijiang Guo, Oana Cocarascu, Elena Simperl, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023, Page(s) 5430-5448
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.361

AnchorAL: Computationally Efficient Active Learning for Large and Imbalanced Datasets

Author(s): Pietro Lesci, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Page(s) 8445-8464
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.467

Document-level Claim Extraction and Decontextualisation for Fact-Checking

Author(s): Zhenyun Deng, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Page(s) 11943-11954
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.645

Tending Towards Stability: Convergence Challenges in Small Language Models

Author(s): Richard Diehl Martinez, Pietro Lesci, Paula Buttery
Published in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024, Page(s) 3275-3286
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.187

ALVIN: Active Learning Via INterpolation

Author(s): Michalis Korakakis, Andreas Vlachos, Adrian Weller
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024, Page(s) 22715-22728
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1265

The Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structuredinformation (FEVEROUS) Shared Task

Author(s): Rami Aly, Zhijiang Guo, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, James Thorne, Andreas Vlachos, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Oana Cocarascu, Arpit Mittal
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER), 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.fever-1.1

Leveraging Type Descriptions for Zero-shot Named Entity Recognition and Classification

Author(s): Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos, Ryan McDonald
Published in: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.120

Improving the robustness of NLI models with minimax training

Author(s): Michalis Korakakis, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023, Page(s) 14322–14339
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.801

Peer reviewed articles (6)

TabVer: Tabular Fact Verification with Natural Logic

Author(s): Rami Aly, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 1648-1671, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00722

Disinformation 2.0 in the Age of AI: A Cybersecurity Perspective

Author(s): Wojciech Mazurczyk, Dongwon Lee, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Communications of the ACM, Issue 67, 2025, Page(s) 36-39, ISSN 0001-0782
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3624721

ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification

Author(s): Amrith Krishna, Sebastian Riedel, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 10, 2022, Page(s) 1013–1030, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00503

<scp>AmbiFC</scp>: Fact-Checking Ambiguous Claims with Evidence

Author(s): Max Glockner, Ieva Staliūnaitė, James Thorne, Gisela Vallejo, Andreas Vlachos, Iryna Gurevych
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00629

A Survey on Automated Fact-Checking

Author(s): Zhijiang Guo, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 2307387X, 2022, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00454

Ev2R: Evaluating Evidence Retrieval in Automated Fact-Checking

Author(s): Mubashara Akhtar, Michael Schlichtkrull, Andreas Vlachos
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Issue 14, 2026, Page(s) 530-561, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/tacl.a.647