AI RESEARCH
FactAppeal: Identifying Epistemic Factual Appeals in News Media
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2510.10627v2 Announce Type: replace How is a factual claim made credible? We propose the novel task of Epistemic Appeal Identification, which identifies whether and how factual statements have been anchored by external sources or evidence. To advance research on this task, we present FactAppeal, a manually annotated dataset of 3,226 English-language news sentences. Unlike prior resources that focus solely on claim detection and verification, FactAppeal identifies the nuanced epistemic structures and evidentiary basis underlying these claims and used to them.