Fact Checking: Theory and Practice (KDD 2018 Tutorial)

Was Da Vinci born in Florence? Does patient'Johnson' really have 300 heart-beats per minute? Checking the accuracy of facts is vital, for question answering, data cleaning, anomaly detection, fraud detection, and more. The emphasis is on the intuition behind each method, as well as on a practitioner's guide, highlighting the applicability of each method to each setting. A B.Sc. in computer science should suffice.