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

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.24802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents our system for Task 3 of the CLEF 2026 CheckThat! Lab, which focuses on generating full fact-checking articles from claims, veracity labels, and evidence documents. We propose a multi-agent pipeline that combines evidence retrieval, structured fact planning, article generation, gated self-critique, and NLI-based citation auditing. The system retrieves claim-relevant evidence using dense retrieval, reranking, and source-balanced selection, then generates a citation-supported article from a structured plan. A gated self-critique stage revises weakly grounded drafts, while the NLI citation auditor repairs missing citations and removes unsupported or redundant ones. The approach highlights the importance of combining