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New LLM system retrieves scientific sources for social media claims

Researchers have developed a system called SciClaimSeekers to retrieve and rerank scientific sources for claims made on social media. This framework combines traditional methods like BM25 with advanced LLM reranking using Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct. The system achieved a significant improvement in performance, reaching 64.36% MRR@5 on an English development set, outperforming baseline methods by over 10 points. This indicates that carefully constructed pipelines leveraging large pre-trained models can be highly effective for this task. AI

IMPACT This system could improve the verification of information spread on social media by linking claims to scholarly sources.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a scientific paper detailing a new system and its performance on a specific task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New LLM system retrieves scientific sources for social media claims

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohotarema Rashid, Nansu Baniya, Anirban Saha Anik, Xiaoying Song, Lingzi Hong ·

    SciClaimSeekers at CheckThat! 2026: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Social Media Claims with LLM Reranking

    arXiv:2607.24803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific claims often spread on social media faster than they can be verified, while posts rarely link to the original scholarly sources. To tackle this problem this paper presents system called SciClaimSeekers, a retrieval and …