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Artifact Dataset

SciFact

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/scifact/

A scientific claim verification and evidence-retrieval dataset used to evaluate retrieval and fact-verification systems.

Scope

SciFact is commonly used as a BEIR component dataset for scientific fact-checking retrieval. It is an evaluation dataset, not the BEIR benchmark suite itself.

Not equivalent to

  • SciFact is not BEIR. SciFact is a component evaluation dataset; BEIR is the benchmark suite that includes SciFact among other datasets.
  • SciFact is not Qrels. SciFact includes relevance or evidence judgments; qrels are judgment files, not the dataset identity.

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