Resources for automatic fact-checking in biomedical tweets

Tweets with biomedical claims (BioClaim), tweets with annotated biomedical entities and relations (BEAR), and tweets with verdicts and evidence texts for fact-checking Covid-19 claims (CoVERT).

BEAR-Fact: A Twitter dataset with fact-checking labels, evidence texts and entity and relation annotations

Type

Corpus

Author

Amelie Wührl, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Lara Grimminger und Roman Klinger

Description

A dataset of tweets annotated with fact-checking labels, evidence texts and structured knowledge, i.e., biomedical entities and relations.

The annotations in this dataset are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.

Reference

Wührl, A., Menchaca Resendiz, Y., Grimminiger, L.,  and  Klinger, R. (2024). What Makes Medical Claims (Un)Verifiable? Analyzing Entity and Relation Properties for Fact Verification. In of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [paper]

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BioClaim: Biomedical Claims in Tweets

Type

Corpus

Author

Amelie Wührl, Roman Klinger

Description

A corpus of 1200 Twitter posts with annotations of explicit and implicit biomedical claims.

The annotations in this dataset are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.

Reference

Wührl, A., & Klinger, R. (2021). Claim Detection in Biomedical Twitter Posts. BioNLP: Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing. [paper]

Wührl, A., & Klinger, R. (2021). Claim Detection in Biomedical Twitter Posts as a Prerequisite for Fact-Checking [Poster presentation]. BioCreative VII Workshop. [poster] [abstract]

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BEAR: Biomedical Entities and Relations in Tweets

Type

Corpus

Author

Amelie Wührl, Roman Klinger

Description

A dataset of 2100 Twitter posts annotated with 14 different types of biomedical entities (e.g., disease, treatment, risk factor, etc.) and 20 relation types (including caused, treated, worsens, etc.).

The annotations in this dataset are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.

Reference

Wührl, A., & Klinger, R. (2022). Recovering Patient Journeys: A Corpus of Biomedical Entities and Relations on Twitter (BEAR). Proceedings of The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. [paper]

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CoVERT: A Corpus of Crowdsourced Fact-checking Verdicts for Biomedical COVID-19 Tweets

Type

Corpus

Authors

Isabelle Mohr, Amelie Wührl, Roman Klinger

Description

A corpus of 300 Twitter posts with claims about Covid-19. All tweets are annotated with crowdsourced fact-checking verdicts (supports, refutes, not enough info) and evidence texts supporting the verdicts.

The annotations in this dataset are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.

Reference
Mohr, I. & Wührl, A. & Klinger, R. (2022). CoVERT: A Corpus of Crowdsourced Fact-checking Verdicts for Biomedical
COVID-19 Tweets. Proceedings of The 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. [paper]
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