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Fake news may be intentionally created to promote economic, political and social interests, and can lead to negative impacts on humans beliefs and decisions. Hence, detection of fake news is an emerging problem that has become extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gisel Bastidas Guacho , Sara Abdali , Neil Shah , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Fake news is dramatically increased in social media in recent years. This has prompted the need for effective fake news detection algorithms. Capsule neural networks have been successful in computer vision and are receiving attention for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mohammad Hadi Goldani , Saeedeh Momtazi , Reza Safabakhsh

The use of content features, particularly textual and linguistic for fake news detection is under-researched, despite empirical evidence showing the features could contribute to differentiating real and fake news. To this end, this study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Vimala Balakrishnan , Lee Zing Hii , Eric Laporte

Increasing amounts of freely available data both in textual and relational form offers exploration of richer document representations, potentially improving the model performance and robustness. An emerging problem in the modern era is fake…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Boshko Koloski , Timen Stepišnik-Perdih , Marko Robnik-Šikonja , Senja Pollak , Blaž Škrlj

The detection of fake news often requires sophisticated reasoning skills, such as logically combining information by considering word-level subtle clues. In this paper, we move towards fine-grained reasoning for fake news detection by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yiqiao Jin , Xiting Wang , Ruichao Yang , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang , Hao Liao , Xing Xie

The focus of this contribution is on camera simulation as it comes into play in simulating autonomous robots for their virtual prototyping. We propose a camera model validation methodology based on the performance of a perception algorithm…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Asher Elmquist , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

Automated fact-checking based on machine learning is a promising approach to identify false information distributed on the web. In order to achieve satisfactory performance, machine learning methods require a large corpus with reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Andreas Hanselowski , Christian Stab , Claudia Schulz , Zile Li , Iryna Gurevych

Misspelled words of the malicious kind work by changing specific keywords and are intended to thwart existing automated applications for cyber-environment control such as harassing content detection on the Internet and email spam detection.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Hongyu Gong , Yuchen Li , Suma Bhat , Pramod Viswanath

Fake News Detection is an essential problem in the field of Natural Language Processing. The benefits of an effective solution in this area are manifold for the goodwill of society. On a surface level, it broadly matches with the general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Lovedeep Singh

State-of-the-art abstractive summarization systems often generate \emph{hallucinations}; i.e., content that is not directly inferable from the source text. Despite being assumed incorrect, we find that much hallucinated content is factual,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Meng Cao , Yue Dong , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Deceptive reviews mislead consumers, harm businesses, and undermine trust in online marketplaces. Machine learning classifiers can learn from large amounts of data to distinguish deceptive reviews from genuine ones. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jiaming Qu , Mengtian Guo , Yue Wang

Detection of fake news is crucial to ensure the authenticity of information and maintain the news ecosystems reliability. Recently, there has been an increase in fake news content due to the recent proliferation of social media and fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Pallabi Saikia , Kshitij Gundale , Ankit Jain , Dev Jadeja , Harvi Patel , Mohendra Roy

Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in deception detection, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. However, statistical approaches to combating fake news has been dramatically limited by the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 William Yang Wang

Massive dissemination of fake news and its potential to erode democracy has increased the demand for accurate fake news detection. Recent advancements in this area have proposed novel techniques that aim to detect fake news by exploring how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Xinyi Zhou , Atishay Jain , Vir V. Phoha , Reza Zafarani

Easier access to the internet and social media has made disseminating information through online sources very easy. Sources like Facebook, Twitter, online news sites and personal blogs of self-proclaimed journalists have become significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Shaily Bhatt , Sakshi Kalra , Naman Goenka , Yashvardhan Sharma

Checking and confirming factual information in texts and speeches is vital to determine the veracity and correctness of the factual statements. This work was previously done by journalists and other manual means but it is a time-consuming…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sidharth Singla

Fact-checking the truthfulness of claims usually requires reasoning over multiple evidence sentences. Oftentimes, evidence sentences may not be always self-contained, and may require additional contexts and references from elsewhere to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Delvin Ce Zhang , Dongwon Lee

In the context of investigative journalism, we address the problem of automatically identifying which claims in a given document are most worthy and should be prioritized for fact-checking. Despite its importance, this is a relatively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Pepa Gencheva , Ivan Koychev , Lluís Màrquez , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Preslav Nakov

Due to flourish of the Web 2.0, web opinion sources are rapidly emerging containing precious information useful for both customers and manufactures. Recently, feature based opinion mining techniques are gaining momentum in which customer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Ahmad Kamal

The evolution of electronic media is a mixed blessing. Due to the easy access, low cost, and faster reach of the information, people search out and devour news from online social networks. In contrast, the increasing acceptance of social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hema Karande , Rahee Walambe , Victor Benjamin , Ketan Kotecha , T. S. Raghu