Natural Language Processing is part of multiple automated fact-checking systems and related tasks such as rumour detection. It can be helpful at different steps in the verification process such as when identifying claims, retrieving evidence, etc.

In this work, the student will choose the fact verification sub-task (e.g., claim identification, evidence retrieval, etc.) they would like to focus on and study the related literature. They will then implement an NLP or an Information Retrieval (IR) based method for this subtask, analyse their results and share their insights.

Note that some dissertation ideas related to this topic are research-focused.