Topic: claim-verification

ClimateCheck@SDP 2025: Advancing Scientific Fact-Checking of Climate Claims

The first ClimateCheck shared task at SDP 2025 challenged participants to build systems for scientific fact-checking of climate claims, with tasks focusing on abstract retrieval and claim verification against a corpus of 394,269 climate science publications.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Efficient Climate Claim Verification: Fine-Tuned BERT Models Outperform Large Language Models

A new study demonstrates that fine-tuned BERT models achieve competitive results with large language models for climate claim verification while processing claims 11-380 times faster, offering a more sustainable and practical solution for real-time fact-checking.