Vaibhav Pulastya

Empowering the Fact-checkers! Automatic Identification of Claim Spans on Twitter

The widespread diffusion of medical and political claims in the wake of COVID-19 has led to a voluminous rise in misinformation and fake news. The current vogue is to employ manual fact-checkers to efficiently classify and verify such data to combat this avalanche of claim-ridden misinformation. How…