Scrutinizer: Fact Checking Statistical Claims
Summary: Scrutinizer translates statistical claims into SQL and proposes query fragments to aid fact checkers. A cost-based optimizer plans verification steps, uses executions to prune alternatives, and classifiers learn from feedback for unseen claims. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Georgios Karagiannis (Cornell University)
- 2. Mohammed Saeed (Eurecom)
- 3. Paolo Papotti (Eurecom)
- 4. Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{karagiannis_vldb20,
title = {{Scrutinizer: Fact Checking Statistical Claims}},
author = {Karagiannis, Georgios and Saeed, Mohammed and Papotti, Paolo and Trummer, Immanuel},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {2965--2968},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415520},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415520},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,357 | Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names? | 2023 | VLDB | 6.1619918e-05 |
| 9,579 | On Detecting Cherry-picked Generalizations | 2022 | VLDB | 5.1571823e-05 |
| 11,362 | Finding Convincing Views to Endorse a Claim | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,364 | CEDAR: A System for Cost-Efficient Data-Driven Claim Verification | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,854 | OpenTFV: An Open Domain Table-Based Fact Verification System | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 11,899 | OREO: Detection of Cherry-picked Generalizations | 2022 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,138 | Verifying Text Summaries of Relational Data Sets | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.2579762e-05 |
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