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In light of the growing impact of disinformation on social, economic, and political landscapes, accurate and efficient identification methods are increasingly critical. This paper introduces HyperGraphDis, a novel approach for detecting…

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific literature related to SARS-COV-2 has been growing dramatically, both in terms of the number of publications and of its impact on people's life. This literature encompasses a varied set of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Giorgia Minello , Carlo R. M. A. Santagiustina , Massimo Warglien

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has made the public pay close attention to related news, covering various domains, such as sanitation, treatment, and effects on education. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 condition is very different among the…

In this paper, we explore the use of large language models to assess human interpretations of real world events. To do so, we use a language model trained prior to 2020 to artificially generate news articles concerning COVID-19 given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Sil Hamilton , Andrew Piper

Fighting the ongoing COVID-19 infodemic has been declared as one of the most important focus areas by the World Health Organization since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the information that is consumed and disseminated consists…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Preslav Nakov , Firoj Alam , Yifan Zhang , Animesh Prakash , Fahim Dalvi

Deep learning is gaining instant popularity in computer aided diagnosis of COVID-19. Due to the high sensitivity of Computed Tomography (CT) to this disease, CT-based COVID-19 detection with visual models is currently at the forefront of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Fouzia Altaf , Syed M. S. Islam , Naveed Akhtar

Understanding the public sentiment and perception in a healthcare crisis is essential for developing appropriate crisis management techniques. While some studies have used Twitter data for predictive modelling during COVID-19, fine-grained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Abdul Hameed Azeemi , Adeel Waheed

The massive spread of false information on social media has become a global risk especially in a global pandemic situation like COVID-19. False information detection has thus become a surging research topic in recent months. NLP4IF-2021…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Lasitha Uyangodage , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Hansi Hettiarachchi

We are presenting COVID-19Base, a knowledgebase highlighting the biomedical entities related to COVID-19 disease based on literature mining. To develop COVID-19Base, we mine the information from publicly available scientific literature and…

Finding previously debunked narratives involves identifying claims that have already undergone fact-checking. The issue intensifies when similar false claims persist in multiple languages, despite the availability of debunks for several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Iknoor Singh , Carolina Scarton , Xingyi Song , Kalina Bontcheva

COVID-19 is currently one the most life-threatening problems around the world. The fast and accurate detection of the COVID-19 infection is essential to identify, take better decisions and ensure treatment for the patients which will help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Md Zahangir Alom , M M Shaifur Rahman , Mst Shamima Nasrin , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

In recent years, the problem of misinformation on the web has become widespread across languages, countries, and various social media platforms. Although there has been much work on automated fake news detection, the role of images and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Gullal S. Cheema , Sherzod Hakimov , Abdul Sittar , Eric Müller-Budack , Christian Otto , Ralph Ewerth

As the digital news industry becomes the main channel of information dissemination, the adverse impact of fake news is explosively magnified. The credibility of a news report should not be considered in isolation. Rather, previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Wenjia Zhang , Lin Gui , Yulan He

The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a global surge of Sinophobia partly because of the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news on China. In this paper, we report on the creation of a novel classifier that detects whether…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yongjun Zhang , Sijia Liu , Yi Wang , Xinguang Fan

False information has a significant negative influence on individuals as well as on the whole society. Especially in the current COVID-19 era, we witness an unprecedented growth of medical misinformation. To help tackle this problem with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ivan Srba , Branislav Pecher , Matus Tomlein , Robert Moro , Elena Stefancova , Jakub Simko , Maria Bielikova

Recent advances in fake news detection have exploited the success of large-scale pre-trained language models (PLMs). The predominant state-of-the-art approaches are based on fine-tuning PLMs on labelled fake news datasets. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chenxi Whitehouse , Tillman Weyde , Pranava Madhyastha , Nikos Komninos

Since the beginning of coronavirus, the disease has spread worldwide and drastically changed many aspects of the human's lifestyle. Twitter as a powerful tool can help researchers measure public health in response to COVID-19. According to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mohamad Zamini

In this paper, we provide an overview of the WNUT-2020 shared task on the identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets. We describe how we construct a corpus of 10K Tweets and organize the development and evaluation phases for this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Afshin Rahimi , Mai Hoang Dao , Linh The Nguyen , Long Doan

Since 2016, the amount of academic research with the keyword "misinformation" has more than doubled [2]. This research often focuses on article headlines shown in artificial testing environments, yet misinformation largely spreads through…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Emily Saltz , Claire Leibowicz , Claire Wardle

The outbreak of the infectious and fatal disease COVID-19 has revealed that pandemics assail public health in two waves: first, from the contagion itself and second, from plagues of suspicion and stigma. Now, we have in our hands and on our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Alexander Wang , Jerry Sun , Kaitlyn Chen , Kevin Zhou , Edward Li Gu , Chenxin Fang