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Fact-checking Multidimensional Statistic Claims in French

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To strengthen public trust and counter disinformation, computational fact-checking, leveraging digital data sources, attracts interest from the journalists and the computer science community. A particular class of interesting data sources comprises statistics, that is, numerical data compiled mostly by governments, administrations, and international organizations. Statistics are often multidimensional datasets, where multiple dimensions characterize one value, and the dimensions may be organized in hierarchies. This paper describes STATCHECK, a statistic fact-checking system jointly developed by the authors, which are either computer science researchers or fact-checking journalists working for a French-language media with a daily audience of more than 15 millions (aud, 2022). The technical novelty of STATCHECK is twofold: (i) we focus on multidimensional, complex-structure statistics, which have received little attention so far, despite their practical importance; and (ii) novel statistical claim extraction modules for French, an area where few resources exist. We validate the efficiency and quality of our system on large statistic datasets (hundreds of millions of facts), including the complete INSEE (French) and Eurostat (European Union) datasets, as well as French presidential election debates.
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hal-03791175 , version 1 (29-09-2022)

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Oana Balalau, Simon Ebel, Théo Galizzi, Ioana Manolescu, Quentin Massonnat, et al.. Fact-checking Multidimensional Statistic Claims in French. TTO 2022 - Truth and Trust Online, Oct 2022, Boston [Hybrid Event], United States. ⟨hal-03791175⟩
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