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Grammatical Error Detection and Correction (GEC) tools have proven useful for native speakers and second language learners. Developing such tools requires a large amount of parallel, annotated data, which is unavailable for most languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Atakan Kara , Farrin Marouf Sofian , Andrew Bond , Gözde Gül Şahin

The spread of fake news has long been a social issue and the necessity of identifying it has become evident since its dangers are well recognized. In addition to causing uneasiness among the public, it has even more devastating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxuan Tian

'Fake News' continues to undermine trust in modern journalism and politics. Despite continued efforts to study fake news, results have been conflicting. Previous attempts to analyse and combat fake news have largely focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Emilie Francis

Nowadays, fake news easily propagates through online social networks and becomes a grand threat to individuals and society. Assessing the authenticity of news is challenging due to its elaborately fabricated contents, making it difficult to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ujun Jeong , Kaize Ding , Lu Cheng , Ruocheng Guo , Kai Shu , Huan Liu

Nowadays, People prefer to follow the latest news on social media, as it is cheap, easily accessible, and quickly disseminated. However, it can spread fake or unreliable, low-quality news that intentionally contains false information. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Zainab A. Jawad , Ahmed J. Obaid

With the rapid development of large language models, the generation of fake news has become increasingly effortless, posing a growing societal threat and underscoring the urgent need for reliable detection methods. Early efforts to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Chi Wang , Min Gao , Zongwei Wang , Junwei Yin , Kai Shu , Chenghua Lin

In today's technologically driven world, the spread of fake news, particularly during crucial events such as elections, presents an increasing challenge to the integrity of information. To address this challenge, we introduce FakeWatch…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tahniat Khan , Mizanur Rahman , Veronica Chatrath , Oluwanifemi Bamgbose , Shaina Raza

Fake news detection algorithms apply machine learning to various news attributes and their relationships. However, their success is usually evaluated based on how the algorithm performs on a static benchmark, independent of real users. On…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bruno Tafur , Advait Sarkar

Due to the evolution of the Web and social network platforms it becomes very easy to disseminate the information. Peoples are creating and sharing more information than ever before, which may be misleading, misinformation or fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dharmaraj R. Patil

The COVID-19 pandemic has gained worldwide attention and allowed fake news, such as ``COVID-19 is the flu,'' to spread quickly and widely on social media. Combating this coronavirus infodemic demands effective methods to detect fake news.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani , Emilio Ferrara

The spread of digital disinformation (aka "fake news") is arguably one of the most significant threats on the Internet which can cause individual and societal harm of large scales. The susceptibility to fake news attacks hinges on whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Cagri Arisoy , Anuradha Mandal , Nitesh Saxena

Large-scale dissemination of disinformation online intended to mislead or deceive the general population is a major societal problem. Rapid progression in image, video, and natural language generative models has only exacerbated this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Reuben Tan , Bryan A. Plummer , Kate Saenko

The use of social media platforms has been gradually increasing and fake news spreading is becoming an alarming issue nowadays. The spreading of fake news means disseminating false, confusing, and spurious information which hurts families,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Umme Faria Moon , MD Ahsan Habib Rasel , Md. Musfique Anwar

With the rapid evolution of technology and the Internet, the proliferation of fake news on social media has become a critical issue, leading to widespread misinformation that can cause societal harm. Traditional fact checking methods are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mayank Kumar Jain , Dinesh Gopalani , Yogesh Kumar Meena , Nishant Jain

Fake news has now grown into a big problem for societies and also a major challenge for people fighting disinformation. This phenomenon plagues democratic elections, reputations of individual persons or organizations, and has negatively…

Nowadays social media is the primary platform for people to obtain news and share information. Combating online fake news has become an urgent task to reduce the damage it causes to society. Existing methods typically improve their fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Xing Su , Jian Yang , Jia Wu , Zitai Qiu

The proliferation of fake news poses a serious threat to society, as it can misinform and manipulate the public, erode trust in institutions, and undermine democratic processes. To address this issue, we present FakeSwarm, a fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jun Wu , Xuesong Ye

The growing societal dependence on social media and user generated content for news and information has increased the influence of unreliable sources and fake content, which muddles public discourse and lessens trust in the media.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marjan Hosseini , Alireza Javadian Sabet , Suining He , Derek Aguiar

The dissemination of fake news significantly affects personal reputation and public trust. Recently, fake news detection has attracted tremendous attention, and previous studies mainly focused on finding clues from news content or diffusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chunyuan Yuan , Qianwen Ma , Wei Zhou , Jizhong Han , Songlin Hu

This paper presents the first comprehensive study on automatic readability assessment of Turkish texts. We combine state-of-the-art neural network models with linguistic features at lexical, morphological, syntactic and discourse levels to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu , Gerold Schneider