Extracting Statistical Mentions from Textual Claims to Provide Trusted Content.

Claims on statistic (numerical) data, e.g., immigrant populations, are often fact-checked. We present a novel approach to extract from text documents, e.g., online media articles, mentions of statistic entities from a reference source. A claim states that an entity has certain value, at a certain time. This completes a fact-checking pipeline from text, to the reference data closest to the claim. We evaluated our method on the INSEE dataset and show that it is efficient and effective.