ClaimRank: Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Arabic and English
This system aims to facilitate manual fact-checking efforts by prioritizing claims for fact-checkers, though it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new data and languages.
The authors tackled the problem of prioritizing claims for fact-checking by developing ClaimRank, an online system that detects check-worthy claims in Arabic and English, trained on annotations from nine reputable fact-checking organizations to mimic their selection strategies.
We present ClaimRank, an online system for detecting check-worthy claims. While originally trained on political debates, the system can work for any kind of text, e.g., interviews or regular news articles. Its aim is to facilitate manual fact-checking efforts by prioritizing the claims that fact-checkers should consider first. ClaimRank supports both Arabic and English, it is trained on actual annotations from nine reputable fact-checking organizations (PolitiFact, FactCheck, ABC, CNN, NPR, NYT, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and Washington Post), and thus it can mimic the claim selection strategies for each and any of them, as well as for the union of them all.