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Shouth NLP at SemEval-2025 Task 7: Multilingual Fact-Checking Retrieval Using Contrastive Learning

Abstract

AbstractWe present a multilingual fact-checking re-trieval system for the SemEval-2025 task ofmatching social media posts with relevant factchecks. Our approach utilizes a contrastivelearning framework built on the multilingual E5model architecture, fine-tuned on the provideddataset. The system achieves a Success@10score of 0.867 on the official test set, with per-formance variations between languages. Wedemonstrate that input prefixes and language-specific corpus filtering significantly improveretrieval performance. Our analysis reveals in-teresting patterns in cross-lingual transfer, withspecifically strong results on Malaysian andThai languages. We make our code public forfurther research and development.

🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning and Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
🧭 Keyword Pioneer — fact-checking retrieval
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Vision, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Healthcare & Medicine, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Security & Privacy, Speech & Audio