StatCheck: Statistical Claim Checking

This project, carried in collaboration with RadioFrance, aims to help journalists with fact-checking tasks. We gathered heterogeneous data from different trusted sources, currently INSEE and Eurostat, in which we can perform fine-granularity search.

Further, we built a claim extraction module, that we paired with social network monitoring of French public figures.

Mar 2024: StatCheck is featured in Les Echos’ article on AI use in the media: https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/intelligence-artificielle/ia-en-immersion-avec-les-robots-journalistes-2083097

Feb 2024: A general-audience presentation of the project, its genesis and its perspectives, from the perspectives of Inria and RadioFrance, is available here: https://www.inria.fr/fr/fact-checking-intelligence-artificielle-journalistes

Architecture

Social media posts acquisition

We regularly acquire the tweets and Facebook posts of public personalities of interest. This list, variable, contains mainly political personalities of the French government.

We provide an interface highligting the posts containing statistical or factual claims, and generate queries to evaluate the claim against our statistic corpus.

Video presentation

A video presenting StatCheck is available here.

Publications

• Oana Balalau, Simon Ebel, Théo Galizzi, Ioana Manolescu, Quentin Massonnat (CEDAR),
  Antoine Deiana, Emilie Gautreau, Antoine Krempf, Thomas Pointillon, Gérald Roux, Joanna Yakin (Radio France) Statistical Claim Checking: StatCheck in Action (demonstration), ACM CIKM 2022, Atlanta, USA. Also informally shown at BDA 2022, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• Oana Balalau, Simon Ebel, Théo Galizzi, Ioana Manolescu, Quentin Massonnat (CEDAR),
  Antoine Deiana, Emilie Gautreau, Antoine Krempf, Thomas Pointillon, Gérald Roux, Joanna Yakin (Radio France) Fact-checking Multidimensional Statistic Claims in French. Truth And Trust Online (TTO) Conference, Boston, USA, 2022.