arXiv AI By Marius Nicusor Pantea, Adrian Groza

An Explainable Coherence Score for Detecting Temporal Inconsistencies in Political News

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The paper presents the Temporal Coherence Score (TCS), a continuous, interpretable metric for detecting temporal inconsistencies in political news. TCS is computed through a four‑stage pipeline that extracts temporal facts, builds a temporal knowledge graph, verifies consistency using internal rules and external references, and aggregates scores with explanations. On a benchmark of 100 political articles with injected errors, TCS achieves 0.909 precision, providing detailed explanations for each flagged inconsistency.

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