Michiel van der Meer

HintsOfTruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims Misinformation can be countered with fact-checking, but the process is costly and slow. Identifying checkworthy claims is the first step, where automation can help scale fact-checkers' efforts. Howeve...

Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.11753
Visit our website: hintsoftruth.github.io

🎉 Excited to announce our paper, "HintsOfTruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims," has been accepted at ACL 2025 in Vienna! We introduce HintsOfTruth, a dataset with 27K image/claim pairs to benchmark checkworthiness detection methods.

This is how artificial and human intelligence work together to strengthen democracy How should the municipality of Eindhoven organise the reception of asylum seekers? What is the best electoral system for the Dutch Parliament? Governments regularly ask citizens for their opinions. Co...

This is how artificial and human intelligence work together to strengthen democracy. Computer scientist Michiel van der Meer @mtichiel.bsky.social has improved the method used for citizen assemblies.
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