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SourceMinds at CheckThat! 2026: NLI-Grounded Citation Auditing in a Multi-Agent Pipeline for Full Fact-Checking Article Generation

Farhan Sharukh Hasan, Anirban Saha Anik, Eric Liu, Xiaoying Song, Mohotarema Rashid and Lingzi Hong

A multi-agent fact-checking pipeline that audits citation support with natural language inference.

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01 / MOTIVATION

Why this work matters

A complete fact-checking article requires more than fluent writing: each cited source must support the statement it is attached to.

A multi-agent fact-checking pipeline that audits citation support with natural language inference.

02 / METHODOLOGY

Research approach

The multi-agent pipeline combines source retrieval, structured article planning, generation, and natural-language-inference citation auditing.

Simplified method summary: SourceMinds uses source-balanced evidence retrieval, structured planning, article writing and gated self-critique, followed by NLI-based citation auditing.
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03 / CONTRIBUTIONS

Main contribution

Multi-agent fact-checking with citation auditing via natural-language inference.

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04 / PUBLICATION

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Farhan Sharukh Hasan, Anirban Saha Anik, Eric Liu, Xiaoying Song, Mohotarema Rashid and Lingzi Hong. (2026). SourceMinds at CheckThat! 2026: NLI-Grounded Citation Auditing in a Multi-Agent Pipeline for Full Fact-Checking Article Generation. Working Notes of CLEF 2026, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4283, pp. 1010–1020.