Pinocchio



Our prototype interactive system Pinocchio analyzes claims related to COVID-19 to evaluate their credibility. The fundamental principle underpinning Pinocchio is corroboration. The system amasses a corpus of online news articles from reputable news sources, processes these articles using a Natural Language Processing pipeline to extract relevant information, and treats them as external evidence to verify the claims.

Research team: Wynne Hsu, Lee Mong Li, Ng Keng Hwee, Desmond Ang