Title
Extractive-Boolean Question Answering for Scientific Fact Checking
Abstract
BSTRACTWith the explosive growth of scientific publications, making the synthesis of scientific knowledge and fact checking becomes an increasingly complex task. In this paper, we propose a multi-task approach for verifying the scientific questions based on a joint reasoning from facts and evidence in research articles. We propose an intelligent combination of (1) an automatic information summarization and (2) a Boolean Question Answering which allows to generate an answer to a scientific question from only extracts obtained after summarization. Thus on a given topic, our proposed approach conducts structured content modeling based on paper abstracts to answer a scientific question while highlighting texts from paper that discuss the topic. We based our final system on an end-to-end Extractive Question Answering (EQA) combined with a three outputs classification model to perform in-depth semantic understanding of a question to illustrate the aggregation of multiple responses. With our light and fast proposed architecture, we achieved an average error rate of 4% and a F1-score of 95.6%. Our results are supported via experiments with two QA models (BERT, RoBERTa) over 3 Million Open Access (OA) articles in the medical and health domains on Europe PMC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3512732.3533580
International Multimedia Conference
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Loïc Rakotoson101.01
Charles Letaillieur200.34
Sylvain Massip300.34
Fréjus Laleye400.34