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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - "Ensuring the veracity of assertions is {vital for building reliable and consistent
    knowledge graphs}. \r\nA variety of automatic fact-checking approaches have been
    proposed over the past decade. Among these, path-based fact-checking approaches
    are particularly attractive due to their independence of supplementary external
    knowledge and their faster runtimes compared to methods reliant on external corpora
    or embeddings.  \r\nHowever, the effectiveness of these approaches is fundamentally
    limited by the incompleteness of existing knowledge graphs, which often lack the
    paths necessary to support or refute assertions. \r\nTo address this limitation,
    we propose \\system{}, a framework that supplements the knowledge graph with shallow
    knowledge---automatically extracted RDF assertions from external unstructured
    sources---even if this additional knowledge may not always fit a well-defined
    ontology nor be fully verified. By appending such shallow knowledge, we enhance
    the graph’s coverage and increase the chances of finding relevant evidence for
    fact checking. Comprehensive experiments on three widely used benchmark datasets
    demonstrate that integrating \\system{} consistently and significantly enhances
    the performance of {state-of-the-art path-based fact-checking approaches}, yielding
    improvements of up to 0.24 in Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic
    Curve (AUROC). These results establish \\system{} as a broadly applicable auxiliary
    component for improving the reliability and coverage of automatic fact checking
    in knowledge graphs. Our code is open-source and can be found at \\url{https://github.com/dice-group/ShallKnow}.@eng"
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Umair
      foaf_name: Qudus, Umair
      foaf_surname: Qudus
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=83392
    orcid: 0000-0001-6714-8729
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Neha
      foaf_name: Pokharel, Neha
      foaf_surname: Pokharel
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Michael
      foaf_name: Röder, Michael
      foaf_surname: Röder
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=67199
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8609-8277
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Axel-Cyrille
      foaf_name: Ngonga Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille
      foaf_surname: Ngonga Ngomo
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=65716
  bibo_doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-25156-5_23
  dct_date: 2026^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/0302-9743
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1611-3349
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/9783032251558
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/9783032251565
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland@
  dct_subject:
  - fact checking
  dct_title: 'No Need to Be a Know-It-All: Fact Checking with Shallow Knowledge@'
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