Check-COVID: Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Claims with Scientific Evidence
Check-COVID: Fact-Checking COVID-19 News Claims with Scientific Evidence
We present a new fact-checking benchmark, Check-COVID, that requires systems to verify claims about COVID-19 from news using evidence from scientific articles. This approach to fact-checking is particularly challenging as it requires checking internet text written in everyday language against evidence from journal articles written in formal academic language. Check-COVID …