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MeVer improves multilingual scientific-source retrieval with cluster-aware mining

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Researchers have developed a novel approach for multilingual scientific-source retrieval, focusing on improving the accuracy of identifying scientific publications that support social media claims. Their method, MeVer, utilizes cluster-aware hard-negative mining to create more informative training data for retrieval models. This strategy proved effective, leading to a 6th place ranking out of 37 submissions in the CheckThat! 2026 shared task. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for scientific-source retrieval. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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MeVer improves multilingual scientific-source retrieval with cluster-aware mining

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Symeon Papadopoulos ·

    MeVer at CheckThat! 2026: Cluster-Aware Hard-Negative Mining for Multilingual Scientific-Source Retrieval

    Identifying the scientific source behind a social media claim requires matching short, informal, and often multilingual claims against large collections of scientific publications, where semantically related papers may act as challenging distractors or false negatives during trai…

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