MisSpans: Fine-Grained False Span Identification in Cross-Domain Fake News
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One strong evidence source: arxiv
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The claim presents an emerging narrative with some gaps, focusing on the nuanced identification of misinformation within sentences, which is a developing area of study. However, it is grounded in the context of existing research and does not present a highly speculative or deeply mysterious scenario.
Online misinformation is increasingly pervasive, yet most existing benchmarks and methods evaluate veracity at the level of whole claims or paragraphs using coarse binary labels, obscuring how true and false details often co-exist within single sentences. These simplifications also limit interpretability: global explanations cannot identify which specific segments are misleading or differentiate how a detail is false (e.g., distorted vs. fabricated). To address these gaps, we introduce MisSpa...