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Showing 1 to 20 of 12002 for “"Fact"”.
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Are Fact-checks Effective Even for Those Who Distrust Fact-checkers?
… for addressing false stories is applying fact-checker informed ‘warning labels’ over misleading posts. Despite a rich literature on corrections and approaches for debunking misinformation, there is comparatively less work examining evidence on the effectiveness of warning labels. Do …
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Neuro-symbolic fact verification
Fact-checking, the process of assessing the veracity of claims, is a time-consuming task that can potentially take hours or days for a single claim, incentivising the development of computational methods to automate (parts of) the fact-checking process. This challenge has been instantiated in the …
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ONLINE MISINFORMATION AND FACT-CHECKING
… have begun to counter false news by integrating fact-checking services. These fact-checkers verify posts’ content and inform users about the posts’ veracity before engaging with them. While the efficacy of fact-checking on users has been studied in prior literature, little attention has been paid …
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Mountain Man : Fact and Fiction
… this dissertation is to examine representative factual and fictional accounts of the mountain man, a pioneer to the Rockies in the early and mid-nineteenth century. Certain components are examined and weighed against each other in an attempt to ascertain the authentic image of the mountain man. …
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Domain knowledge specification using fact schema
… of data base systems to store large number of facts and rules for a rule-based AI system.
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Architecture: as a matter of fact
As reality continues to shift from the made fact to the idea: We conclude that creativity is a state of mind; measured by what is made. It is only when extended beyond oneself that an idea can become real to more than one. We Extend thru our talents and skills. The significance of that made is its …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… This obsessive drive to discover and integrate facts into his fiction can be seen in all of his novels, but none so clearly as in the five he subtitled "a matter-of-fact romance." Since the early 1900s, Reade has been completely excluded from the literary canon, and few critics have devoted any …
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The Tale of Mental Causation: Fact or Fiction?
Mental causation is with us all the time. Being a table is different from being a human---although we are composed of physical particles, we have understanding, reason, or perception, which are able to make a difference in the physical world. In this dissertation, I have detail discussions of …
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On End-to-end Automatic Fact-checking Systems
… of social media has aided the spread of nonfactual information across the internet, and organizations are combating disinformation by performing manual fact-checking. Due to the massive amount of online information, the automation of this process has recently gained great interest. Previous …
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miss translation : from fact to feeling to form
… Los Angeles to Cambridge, past to future, fact to feeling, and memory to form; at the same time, my intention is to evoke a sense of emotional absence, danger and the struggle of identity in others.
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The Familial cycle of adolescent pregnancy: fact or fiction
According to the Texas Department of Health (1995), an infant is born to an adolescent mother in Texas every 11 minutes. Inazu and Fox (1980) suggested that the mother-daughter relationship is primary in accounting for teenage sexual knowledge and behavior. The theoretical framework of the study …
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Fact-based visual question answering using knowledge graph embeddings
… world perceived through vision and language. Fact-based Visual Question Answering (FVQA), a challenging variant of VQA, requires a QA-system to mimic this human ability. It must include facts from a diverse knowledge graph (KG) in its reasoning process to produce an answer. Large KGs, …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
Professional fact-checking, a prominent approach to combating misinformation, does not scale easily. Furthermore, some distrust fact-checkers because of alleged liberal bias. We explore a solution to these problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. …
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Ludwik Fleck and his concept of a scientific fact
… thesis, I explore the concept of a scientific fact through the work of Polish physician Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961). Fleck has had an alleged influence upon contemporary philosophy of science, primarily through the work of Thomas Kuhn with subsequent echoes from the direction of the sociology of …
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Job Applicant Faking of Overt Integrity Tests: Fact or Fantasy?
Integrity tests are among the least utilized pre-employment selection instruments due, at least in part, to concern regarding the ease at which applicants can successfully fake their responses. The current study attempted to assess the extent to which actual job applicants fake overt integrity …
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