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 Automatic Fact Checking for Biomedical Information in Social Media and Scientific Literature 
Existing situation
 Completed 
Title
 Automatic Fact Checking for Biomedical Information in Social Media and Scientific Literature 
Project leader
Start date
 February 2, 2021 
End date
 August 31, 2024 
Category
Grundlagenforschung
Acronym
FIBISS
Description
Most research on methods and models for automatic fact checking, which can distinguish misinformation and desinformation from correct information, focus on the news domain. News, including those shared in social media spaces, are checked for their truthfulness.Such methods have not been developed for the biomedical domain yet. Challenges include the richness of (established) sources of information, the complexity of information, as well as the differences between the language of experts and medical laypeople.In this project, we develop information extraction systems for laypeople and expert language, map the extracted information onto each other and finally check their truthfulness, based on established sources.The project combines therefore methods from transfer learning, information extraction, and fact checking for the biomedical domain, especially in social media.
Area of research
natural language processing
Keywords
 fact checking 
 natural language processing 
 bioNLP 
 social media 
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/94264