SciFact is an expert-annotated corpus for scientific claim verification: given a short scientific claim, systems must find PubMed abstracts in a fixed corpus that contain evidence supporting or refuting the claim. The original work frames the task as retrieval plus rationale labeling; BEIR (Benchmarking-IR) repurposes SciFact as a zero-shot information retrieval benchmark, where the goal is to rank abstracts so that relevant… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/orgrctera/beir_scifact.
