Science Checker

Code implementation of Science Checker Reloaded.

To access the Extractive-Boolean QA For Scientific Fact Checking code implementation, please refer to the v1.0 branch.

Installation

Install Docker and Docker Compose if you haven't already.
Then, run the following commands to build the Docker image.

docker-compose build

Download the entity-fishing models.

wget -qO- https://science-miner.s3.amazonaws.com/entity-fishing/0.0.6/db-kb.zip | bsdtar -C src/entityfish/models/ -xvf-
wget -qO- https://science-miner.s3.amazonaws.com/entity-fishing/0.0.6/db-en.zip | bsdtar -C src/entityfish/models/ -xvf-

Run the following command to start the Docker container.

docker-compose up

Citations

If you find this code useful, please consider citing our work.

@misc{rakotoson2024science,
      title={Science Checker Reloaded: A Bidirectional Paradigm for Transparency and Logical Reasoning}, 
      author={Loïc Rakotoson and Sylvain Massip and Fréjus A. A. Laleye},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.13897},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR}
}

If you use the Extractive-Boolean QA For Scientific Fact Checking code implementation, please consider citing the following work.

@inproceedings{Rakotoson_2022,
    series={ICMR ’22},
    title={Extractive-Boolean Question Answering for Scientific Fact Checking},
    url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3512732.3533580},
    DOI={10.1145/3512732.3533580},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation},
    publisher={ACM},
    author={Rakotoson, Loïc and Letaillieur, Charles and Massip, Sylvain and Laleye, Fréjus A. A.},
    year={2022},
    month=jun,
    collection={ICMR ’22}
}