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Robert Procter

3 accepted papers

2026

The Alignment Bottleneck in Decomposition-Based Claim Verification

IJCAI 2026

Structured claim decomposition is often proposed as a solution for verifying complex, multi-faceted claims, yet empirical results have been inconsistent. We argue that these inconsistencies stem from two overlooked bottlenecks: evidence alignment and sub-claim error profiles. To better understand th

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2022

Disentangled Learning of Stance and Aspect Topics for Vaccine Attitude Detection in Social Media

NAACL 2022long

Building models to detect vaccine attitudes on social media is challenging because of the composite, often intricate aspects involved, and the limited availability of annotated data. Existing approaches have relied heavily on supervised training that requires abundant annotations and pre-defined asp…

2022

Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims

NAACL 2022long

We present a comprehensive work on automated veracity assessment from dataset creation to developing novel methods based on Natural Language Inference (NLI), focusing on misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We first describe the construction of the novel PANACEA dataset consisting of het…