用时间一致性评分识别新闻中的时间错乱,让假消息无处藏身。
An Explainable Coherence Score for Detecting Temporal Inconsistencies in Political News
- 构建时间知识图谱,分四步验证事件时间逻辑
- 在100篇带错新闻中准确率达90.9%,仅1个误报
- 自动标注错误类型与来源,适合人工核查场景
时间错乱(如任期跨时段、事件提前叙述、因果倒置)是逃避风格检测的政论型虚假信息:一篇文字流畅但日期错误的文章无明显语言异常。本文提出时间一致性评分(TCS),一种连续且可解释的指标,通过四阶段流程计算:提取时间事实、构建时间知识图谱、基于内部一致性规则与外部参考源的分层验证、分数聚合并生成自动解释。验证结合八种源自Allen区间代数的内部检查器,以及五级外部层级——从本地存储的1,256条精选政治事实知识库,到实时Wikidata SPARQL查询。在包含100篇注入时间错误的政治新闻的基准上,系统在选定阈值下达到0.909的精确率,仅一个残余误报,该配置专为人工介入的事实核查设计,误报代价高于漏检。不同于仅输出二分类的词汇基线,每个被标记的文章均附带错误类型、涉事实体及矛盾参考来源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Temporal inconsistencies, such as mandates attributed outside their real interval, events presented as past before they occurred, or inverted causal sequences, are a form of political disinformation that evades style-based fake news detectors: a well-written article with a single wrong date carries no lexical signal of falsehood. This paper introduces the Temporal Coherence Score (TCS), a continuous, intrinsically interpretable metric that quantifies the temporal coherence of a news article, computed by a four-stage pipeline: extraction of temporal facts, construction of a temporal knowledge graph, hierarchical verification against internal consistency rules and external reference sources, and score aggregation with automatically generated explanations. Verification combines eight internal checkers derived from Allen's interval algebra with a five-level external hierarchy ranging from a locally stored reference knowledge base of 1{,}256 curated political facts to live Wikidata SPARQL queries. On a benchmark of 100 political news articles with injected temporal errors, the system reaches a precision of 0.909 at the selected operating threshold, with a single residual false positive, a profile deliberately tuned for human-in-the-loop fact-checking assistance, where false alarms are costlier than missed detections. Unlike lexical baselines that output only a binary label, every flagged article is accompanied by the inconsistency type, the entities involved, and the reference source that contradicts the claim.
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