SciClaimSeekers at CheckThat! 2026: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Social Media Claims with LLM Reranking
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Title:SciClaimSeekers at CheckThat! 2026: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Social Media Claims with LLM Reranking
Abstract: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 zero-shot multilingual E5 retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (k=60), followed by Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct pointwise reranking. The pipeline reaches 64.36% MRR@5 on the English development set a 13.67-point jump over BM25 and 10.17 points over the unranked hybrid and 64.39% on the official test set, in the CLEF-2026 CheckThat! Task 1 evaluation. Our experiment suggests that large pre-trained models, when combined into a careful pipeline, can be competitive with fine-tuned approaches on this task.
| Comments: | CLEF 2026 Working Notes / CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2026, Jena, Germany |
| Subjects: | Information Retrieval (cs.IR); Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2607.24803 [cs.IR] |
| (or arXiv:2607.24803v1 [cs.IR] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.24803
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