Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Semantically Matched Paraphrases

October 24, 2022 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Authors Dustin Wright, Jiaxin Pei, David Jurgens, Isabelle Augenstein arXiv ID 2210.13001 Category cs.CL: Computation & Language Cross-listed cs.CY, cs.LG Citations 16 Venue Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Repository https://github.com/copenlu/scientific-information-change ⭐ 13 Last Checked 5 days ago

Abstract

Whether the media faithfully communicate scientific information has long been a core issue to the science community. Automatically identifying paraphrased scientific findings could enable large-scale tracking and analysis of information changes in the science communication process, but this requires systems to understand the similarity between scientific information across multiple domains. To this end, we present the SCIENTIFIC PARAPHRASE AND INFORMATION CHANGE DATASET (SPICED), the first paraphrase dataset of scientific findings annotated for degree of information change. SPICED contains 6,000 scientific finding pairs extracted from news stories, social media discussions, and full texts of original papers. We demonstrate that SPICED poses a challenging task and that models trained on SPICED improve downstream performance on evidence retrieval for fact checking of real-world scientific claims. Finally, we show that models trained on SPICED can reveal large-scale trends in the degrees to which people and organizations faithfully communicate new scientific findings. Data, code, and pre-trained models are available at http://www.copenlu.com/publication/2022_emnlp_wright/.