BiDeV: Bilateral Defusing Verification for Complex Claim Fact-Checking

Complex claim fact-checking performs a crucial role in disinformation detection. However, existing fact-checking methods struggle with claim vagueness, specifically in effectively handling latent information and complex relations within claims. Moreover, evidence redundancy, where non-essential information complicates the verification process, remains a significant issue. To tackle these limitations, we propose Bilateral Defusing Verification (BiDeV), a novel fact-checking working-flow framework integrating multiple role-played LLMs to mimic the human-expert fact-checking process. BiDeV consists of two main modules: Vagueness Defusing identifies latent information and resolves complex relations to simplify the claim, and Redundancy Defusing eliminates redundant content to enhance the evidence quality. Extensive experimental results on two widely used challenging fact-checking benchmarks (Hover and Feverous-s) demonstrate that our BiDeV can achieve the best performance under both gold and open settings. This highlights the effectiveness of BiDeV in handling complex claims and ensuring precise fact-checking.

Authors

• Yuxuan Liu Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China
• Hongda Sun Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China
• Wenya Guo Nankai University
• Xinyan Xiao Baidu Inc.
• Cunli Mao Kunming University of Science and Technology
• Zhengtao Yu Kunming University of Science and Technology
• Rui Yan

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