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Automatic detection of fake news is a highly important task in the contemporary world. This study reports the 2nd shared task called UrduFake@FIRE2021 on identifying fake news detection in Urdu. The goal of the shared task is to motivate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Maaz Amjad , Sabur Butt , Hamza Imam Amjad , Alisa Zhila , Grigori Sidorov , Alexander Gelbukh

Connectivity plays an ever-increasing role in modern society, with people all around the world having easy access to rapidly disseminated information. However, a more interconnected society enables the spread of intentionally false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-03 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Nuno Oliveira , Isabel Praça

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

We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the 2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in English, Arabic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Alberto Barron-Cedeno , Tamer Elsayed , Preslav Nakov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Maram Hasanain , Reem Suwaileh , Fatima Haouari

The use of the internet as a fast medium of spreading fake news reinforces the need for computational tools that combat it. Techniques that train fake news classifiers exist, but they all assume an abundance of resources including large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Jan Christian Blaise Cruz , Julianne Agatha Tan , Charibeth Cheng

The task of predicting the publication period of text documents, such as news articles, is an important but less studied problem in the field of natural language processing. Predicting the year of a news article can be useful in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Karthick Prasad Gunasekaran , B Chase Babrich , Saurabh Shirodkar , Hee Hwang

Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identification. We not only need an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Marzieh Mozafari , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

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

Multi-domain sentiment classification deals with the scenario where labeled data exists for multiple domains but insufficient for training effective sentiment classifiers that work across domains. Thus, fully exploiting sentiment knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jianhua Yuan , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Fake news travels at unprecedented speeds, reaches global audiences and puts users and communities at great risk via social media platforms. Deep learning based models show good performance when trained on large amounts of labeled data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yaqing Wang , Fenglong Ma , Haoyu Wang , Kishlay Jha , Jing Gao

For a news content distribution platform like Dailyhunt, Named Entity Recognition is a pivotal task for building better user recommendation and notification algorithms. Apart from identifying names, locations, organisations from the news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Swapnil Ashok Jadhav

In the era of widespread social networks, the rapid dissemination of fake news has emerged as a significant threat, inflicting detrimental consequences across various dimensions of people's lives. Machine learning and deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Batool Lakzaei , Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani , Alireza Bagheri

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

The proliferation of fake news poses a significant threat not only by disseminating misleading information but also by undermining the very foundations of democracy. The recent advance of generative artificial intelligence has further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Cheng Niu , Yang Guan , Yuanhao Wu , Juno Zhu , Juntong Song , Randy Zhong , Kaihua Zhu , Siliang Xu , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

Over the last few years, Text classification is one of the fundamental tasks in natural language processing (NLP) in which the objective is to categorize text documents into one of the predefined classes. The news is full of our life.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ke Yahan , Ruyi Qu , Lu Xiaoxia

This paper describes our approach to the multi-modal fact verification (FACTIFY) challenge at AAAI2023. In recent years, with the widespread use of social media, fake news can spread rapidly and negatively impact social security. Automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yinuo Zhang , Zhulin Tao , Xi Wang , Tongyue Wang

The CheckThat! lab aims to advance the development of innovative technologies combating disinformation and manipulation efforts in online communication across a multitude of languages and platforms. While in early editions the focus has…

In the past decade, the social networks platforms and micro-blogging sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Weibo have become an integral part of our day-to-day activities and is widely used all over the world by billions of users…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Sakshini Hangloo , Bhavna Arora

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is published daily. Yet, no approach is established that addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Vishwani Gupta , Katharina Beckh , Sven Giesselbach , Dennis Wegener , Tim Wirtz

With the freedom of communication provided in online social media, hate speech has increasingly generated. This leads to cyber conflicts affecting social life at the individual and national levels. As a result, hateful content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Khouloud Mnassri , Praboda Rajapaksha , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi