Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent FrameworkAutomated fact-checking systems still fall short of producing explanations that mirror the depth and structure of expert human reasoning.
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10.1145/3800935.3830873
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework
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Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Silva, Lucas Raniére Juvino Santos, Leandro Balby Marinho, Claudio Elizio Calazans Campelo
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830873
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CC BY 4.0
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Automated fact-checking systems still fall short of producing explanations that mirror the depth and structure of expert human reasoning.
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fact-checking; explainability; linguistic analysis; multi-agent systems; misinformation; disinformation; fake news; human evaluation; large language model
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Multi-agent systems ; • Computing methodologies → Intelligent agents ; • Computing methodologies~Lexical semantics;
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Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Silva, Lucas Raniére Juvino Santos, Leandro Balby Marinho, Claudio Elizio Calazans Campelo
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Pedro Henrique de Oliveira Silva, Lucas Raniére Juvino Santos, Leandro Balby Marinho, and Claudio Elizio Calazans Campelo. 2026. Beyond Verdicts: Explainable Fact-Checking via a Linguistically-Grounded Multi-Agent Framework. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830873