@inproceedings{ijcai2026p608, title = {The Alignment Bottleneck in Decomposition-Based Claim Verification}, author = {Akhter, Mahmud Elahi and Ruggeri, Federico and Bilal, Iman Munire and Procter, Robert and Liakata, Maria}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}}, publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization}, editor = {Diego Calvanese}, pages = {5458--5467}, year = {2026}, month = {8}, note = {Main Track}, doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/608}, url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/608}, }