AI RESEARCH
Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Citation Needed Detection on Wikipedia for Lower-Resource Languages
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.31136v1 Announce Type: new In automated fact-checking (AFC), check-worthiness detection identifies claims requiring verification based on domain-specific criteria. On Wikipedia, this task instantiates as Citation Needed Detection (CND), which flags claims lacking ing citations. However, existing research has largely overlooked lower-resource languages, and recent AFC pipelines rely on large language models (LLMs), which are inaccessible to low-resource organizations. We