[3Xin4] Poster session 1

[3Xin4-10] Technical Report on NTCIR-16 QA Lab-PoliInfo-3 Fact Verification Subtask

〇Ken-ichi Yokote¹, Hideyuki Shibuki², Tomoyoshi Akiba³, Yasutomo Kimura⁴ (1.Hitachi, Ltd., 2.BESNA Institute Inc., 3.Toyohashi University of Technology, 4.Otaru University of Commerce)

Keywords:fact checking

This paper reports on the Fact Verification task, which is the successor to the NTCIR-14 QA Lab-PoliInfo
segmentation task. This task was conducted from November 22 to November 30, 2021, and a total of 15 methods
were submitted for the formal run. This paper first describes the position of the Fact Verification task in QA
Lab-PoliInfo and the objectives of this task. Next, the contents of the dataset and the evaluation methods are
explained. Finally, we describe the results of the submitted methods and discuss the recent state of the art regarding
information credibility problem.