The recent explosion of false claims in social media and on the Web in
general has given rise to a lot of manual fact-checking initiatives.
Unfortunately, the number of claims that need to be fact-checked is several
orders of magnitude larger than what humans can handle manually. Thus, there
has been a lot of research aiming at automating the process. Interestingly,
previous work has largely ignored the growing number of claims about images.
This is despite the fact that visual imagery is more influential than text and
naturally appears alongside fake news. Here we aim at bridging this gap. In
particular, we create a new dataset for this problem, and we explore a variety
of features modeling the claim, the image, and the relationship between the
claim and the image. The evaluation results show sizable improvements over the
baseline. We release our dataset, hoping to enable further research on
fact-checking claims about images.

本研究致力于解决社交媒体和 Web 网站中虚假声称的爆炸性增长所带来的手动事实检查的挑战。该研究新建了数据集并探讨了几种特征对声明、图片及二者之间的关系进行建模。最终评估结果显示与基线相比，取得了显著的进展，并发布了数据集以期推动该领域的进一步研究。