POMI: A Corpus to Support a Natural Language Inference-based Approach for Detecting Misinformation in Philippine Online News
摘要
Aimed at combating misinformation through Artificial Intelligence-assisted fact-checking, this paper introduces the Philippine Online Misinformation Inference (POMI) dataset, a compilation of 10,132 factual and false claims from Philippine fact-check articles, and the first misinformation corpus in the Philippines utilizing Natural Language Inference. In the benchmarking, LLaMA 3.1 70B achieved a higher accuracy of 85.1%, compared to that of smaller models such as LLaMA 3.1 8B and DeepSeek-R1 8B, as well as larger and more recent models, including LLaMA 3.3 70B and DeepSeek-R1 70B. However, applying fine-tuning to the smaller models substantially boosted their performance; in particular, LLaMA 3.1 8B increased from 78.7% to 94.5%, highlighting the competitive potential of lightweight models for NLI-based tasks. The results establish the potential of the POMI dataset to support detection of false online content in the Philippines.