arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

Overview of the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers

arXiv:2611.06090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an overview of \emph{SciClaimEval}, a pilot task at NTCIR-19 on verifying scientific claims against the tables and figures of the p...

By Xanh Ho, Andr\'{e} Greiner-Petter, Florian Boudin, Yun-Ang Wu, Sunisth Kumar, Tian Cheng Xia, Hiba Akbi, Tim Schopf, Akiko Aizawa
arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

An Experimental Study of Hybrid Retrieval, NLI and Open-source LLMs for Scientific Claim Verification

The study evaluates hybrid retrieval, NLI, and open‑source LLMs for scientific claim verification. Using a benchmark of 2,035 claims, the authors compare a DeBERTa‑based NLI baseline with Llama 3.1, Qwen3, and Mistral LLMs, finding that Qwen3 achieves the highest Macro‑F1 score. A conservative fusion rule that labels a claim as Support or Contradict only when both models agree actually degrades performance, and error analysis reveals that disagreements often overturn correct LLM predictions.

By Lakshmi Narayanan P, Narenkarthik K, Naren Kumar C
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Med-V1: Small Language Models for Zero-shot and Scalable Biomedical Evidence Attribution

arXiv:2603. 05308v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assessing whether an article supports an assertion is essential for hallucination detection and claim verification.

By Qiao Jin, Yin Fang, Lauren He, Yifan Yang, Guangzhi Xiong, Zhizheng Wang, Nicholas Wan, Joey Chan, Donald C. Comeau, Robert Leaman, Charalampos S. Floudas, Aidong Zhang, Michael F. Chiang, Yifan Peng, Zhiyong Lu