UPV-UMA at CheckThat! Lab: verifying Arabic claims using a cross lingual approach
Bilal Ghanem, Goran Glavaš, Anastasia Giachanou, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Paolo Rosso, Francisco Rangel · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2019
In this paper we present our team participation at CheckThat!-2019 lab -Task 2 on Arabic claim verification.We propose a cross-lingual approach to detect the factuality of claims using three main steps, evidence retrieval, evidence ranking, and textual entailment.Our approach achieves the best performance in subtask-D, with a value of 0.62 as F1.