# Evidence-based Interpretable Open-domain Fact-checking with Large Language Models

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05834 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05834/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 25 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Dec 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.09288/) (2023)
- [FEVER: a large-scale dataset for Fact Extraction and VERification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.05355/) (2018)
- [Explainable Automated Fact-Checking for Public Health Claims](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.09926/) (2020)
- [HoVer: A Dataset for Many-Hop Fact Extraction And Claim Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.03088/) (2020)
- [Generating Fact Checking Explanations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.05773/) (2020)
- [Combining Fact Extraction and Verification with Neural Semantic Matching Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.07039/) (2018)
- [GCAN: Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Fake News Detection on Social Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.11648/) (2020)
- [Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.03745/) (2019)
- [BERT for Evidence Retrieval and Claim Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.02655/) (2019)
- [ProoFVer: Natural Logic Theorem Proving for Fact Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.11357/) (2021)
- [Scientific Claim Verification with VERT5ERINI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11930/) (2020)
- [XFake: Explainable Fake News Detector with Visualizations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.07757/) (2019)
- [Explainable Fact Checking with Probabilistic Answer Set Programming](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.09198/) (2019)
- [Generating Fluent Fact Checking Explanations with Unsupervised Post-Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.06924/) (2021)
- [Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.14116/) (2022)
- [BEVERS: A General, Simple, and Performant Framework for Automatic Fact Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.16974/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [CausalEval: Towards Better Causal Reasoning in Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.16676/) (2024)
- [Assessing the Potential of Generative Agents in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.19940/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Universal fact-checking systems for real-world claims face significant challenges in gathering valid and sufficient real-time evidence and making reasoned decisions. In this work, we introduce the Open-domain Explainable Fact-checking (OE-Fact) system for claim-checking in real-world scenarios. The OE-Fact system can leverage the powerful understanding and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to validate claims and generate causal explanations for fact-checking decisions. To adapt the traditional three-module fact-checking framework to the open domain setting, we first retrieve claim-related information as relevant evidence from open websites. After that, we retain the evidence relevant to the claim through LLM and similarity calculation for subsequent verification. We evaluate the performance of our adapted three-module OE-Fact system on the Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER) dataset. Experimental results show that our OE-Fact system outperforms general fact-checking baseline systems in both closed- and open-domain scenarios, ensuring stable and accurate verdicts while providing concise and convincing real-time explanations for fact-checking decisions.