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CoVERT : A Corpus of Fact-checked Biomedical COVID-19 Tweets
Mohr, Isabelle; Wührl, Amelie; Klinger, Roman (2024): CoVERT : A Corpus of Fact-checked Biomedical COVID-19 Tweets, in: Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität, S. 244–257.
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2024
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference / Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis (Hg.). - Marseille : European Language Resources Association, 2022, S. 244–257.
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2022
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English
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During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, large volumes of biomedical information concerning this new disease have been published on social media. Some of this information can pose a real danger, particularly when false information is shared, for instance recommendations how to treat diseases without professional medical advice. Therefore, automatic fact-checking resources and systems developed specifically for medical domain are crucial. While existing fact-checking resources cover COVID-19 related information in news or quantify the amount of misinformation in tweets, there is no dataset providing fact-checked COVID-19 related Twitter posts with detailed annotations for biomedical entities, relations and relevant evidence. We contribute CoVERT, a fact-checked corpus of tweets with a focus on the domain of biomedicine and COVID-19 related (mis)information. The corpus consists of 300 tweets, each annotated with named entities and relations. We employ a novel crowdsourcing methodology to annotate all tweets with fact-checking labels and supporting evidence, which crowdworkers search for online. This methodology results in substantial inter-annotator agreement. Furthermore, we use the retrieved evidence extracts as part of a fact-checking pipeline, finding that the real-world evidence is more useful than the knowledge directly available in pretrained language models.
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Computerlinguistik
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COVID-19
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CoVERT
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September 16, 2024
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/96462