It felt real special to participate in FEVERworkshop and learn about amazing recent progress, e.g., Isabelle Augenstein's keynote addressing various subcomponents of the whole pipeline of fact-checking, including "generating fact-checking explanations" (arxiv.org/abs/2004.05773) 1/N

FEVERworkshop happened yesterday #acl2020nlp ! Wasn't sure how the virtual mode would affect it, but I was pleasantly impressed with the talks and the discussions in the live QA sessions! Thanks to my co-organizers James Thorne Christos Christodoulopoulos Arpit Mittal and Oana Cocarascu

Andreas Vlachos FEVERworkshop James Thorne Christos Christodoulopoulos Arpit Mittal You were so impressed you logged into that video meeting twice in parallel? :)

Interested in advancing automated fact checking with NLP/ML? The applications for two 5-year positions jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/26228/ in my ERC project AVeriTeC cst.cam.ac.uk/dr-andreas-vla… are now open! Deadline 15/08! Any questions get in touch!

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Submit your papers to Truth and Trust Online! Deadline *tomorrow* for papers and talk proposal deadline on Aug 14th:

Doing work in the space of online truth and trust? Including areas like mis- and disinfo, fact-checking, verification, false amplification, bias, etc. If so, then you should submit a talk proposal to TTOCon & join our awesome lineup! Deadline in 4 days: truthandtrustonline.com

Registration is now live for the Truth and Trust Conference happening virtually in October! Sign up to get an early-bird reduced rate (now thru Sept 15): truthandtrustonline.com/register/ And more announcements to come (including addl speakers, accepted papers, and program schedule)!

Hey #NLProc folks, applications for this #postdoc position are closing tomorrow!

Check out *HoVer*🪜🐇(HOppy-VERification) for manyhop evidence extractn & claim verif, a long effort led by Yichen Jiang & Shikha Bordia (#emnlp2020 findings)🙂 Pdf: arxiv.org/abs/2011.03088 Website data+code: hover-nlp.github.io jiang-yichen.io bordias.github.io

We have updated our CFP to announce that FEVERworkshop is participating in ARR! Looking forward to receiving papers from its process in addition to our standard submission process!

Excited to announce our new shared task EMNLP 2025: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information (FEVEROUS). Check our page for information on dataset, evaluation and key dates fever.ai/task.html #EMNLP2021 #NLProc

Our new shared task on #factchecking against Wikipedia text and tables has just started: fever.ai/task.html! Thanks Amazon Science for supporting us and the amazing team Rami Aly Christos Christodoulopoulos Zhijiang Arpit Mittal Michael Schlichtkrull James Thorne!

The full dataset is now ready: fever.ai/dataset/fevero… and here id the paper describing the annotation process and a baseline to get you started: arxiv.org/abs/2106.05707 Looking forward to seeing your submissions! FEVERworkshop

(((ل()(ل() 'yoav))))👾 Yejin Choi We’ve done something cool recently involving verifying claims against tables and text ➡️ arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05707…

"FEVEROUS: Fact Extraction and VERification Over Unstructured and Structured information" a dataset of 85k+ claims verified from #Wikipedia. (Aly et al, 2021) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2106.05707 data: fever.ai/task.html Andreas Vlachos Arpit Mittal Christos Christodoulopoulos James Thorne

We just extended our paper submission deadline to Sunday 8/8, a bit more time to polish these papers! FEVERworkshop

Our first hybrird FEVERworkshop is ongoing. Thanks to our participants in-person and online! And thanks for the amazing talks so far by Preslav Nakov Maria Liakata Mirella Lapata Now listening to Pasquale Minervini and then Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) Steven Novella and Mohit Bansal !

With the great team behind this Rami Aly Christos Christodoulopoulos Zhijiang Guo Michael Schlichtkrull James Thorne Arpit Mittal Oana Cocarascu some of whom are attending this together from Cambridge!

Great news! The workshop will run during NAACL 2022 and we have a call for papers up! The focus of this year's workshop will be on the online abuse in areas and languages that are underserved by language technology. Find our CfP here: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp