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The spread of misinformation is a pressing global problem that has elicited a range of responses from researchers, policymakers, civil society and industry. Over the past decade, these stakeholders have developed many interventions to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Pica Johansson , Florence Enock , Scott Hale , Bertie Vidgen , Cassidy Bereskin , Helen Margetts , Jonathan Bright

Using optimal detection techniques with climate model simulations, most of the observed increase of near surface temperatures over the second half of the twentieth century is attributed to anthropogenic influences. However, the partitioning…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Gareth S. Jones , Peter A. Stott , John F. B. Mitchell

The ability to discern between true and false information is essential to making sound decisions. However, with the recent increase in AI-based disinformation campaigns, it has become critical to understand the influence of deceptive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Valdemar Danry , Pat Pataranutaporn , Ziv Epstein , Matthew Groh , Pattie Maes

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding AI hallucinations as a distinct form of misinformation. While misinformation scholarship has traditionally focused on human intent, generative AI systems now produce false yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Anqi Shao

An important, yet largely unstudied, problem in student data analysis is to detect misconceptions from students' responses to open-response questions. Misconception detection enables instructors to deliver more targeted feedback on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-31 Joshua J. Michalenko , Andrew S. Lan , Richard G. Baraniuk

An important challenge in the process of tracking and detecting the dissemination of misinformation is to understand the political gap between people that engage with the so called "fake news". A possible factor responsible for this gap is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Pedro H. Calais , Virgílio A. F. Almeida , Wagner Meira

Fallacies are used as seemingly valid arguments to support a position and persuade the audience about its validity. Recognizing fallacies is an intrinsically difficult task both for humans and machines. Moreover, a big challenge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Tariq Alhindi , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Elena Musi , Smaranda Muresan

The availability of reliable, high-resolution climate and weather data is important to inform long-term decisions on climate adaptation and mitigation and to guide rapid responses to extreme events. Forecasting models are limited by…

Misinformation on YouTube is a significant concern, necessitating robust detection strategies. In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology for video classification, focusing on the veracity of the content. We convert the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Christos Christodoulou , Nikos Salamanos , Pantelitsa Leonidou , Michail Papadakis , Michael Sirivianos

Misinformation verification increasingly occurs in public, fast-moving, and multilingual online settings, where static benchmarks provide an incomplete measure of model reliability. We introduce CommunityFact, a refreshable benchmark for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Sahajpreet Singh , Insyirah Mujtahid , Min-Yen Kan , Kokil Jaidka

(Dis)agreement detection aims to identify the authors' attitudes or positions (\textit{{agree, disagree, neutral}}) towards a specific text. It is limited for existing methods merely using textual information for identifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yun Luo , Zihan Liu , Stan Z. Li , Yue Zhang

Decadal temperature prediction provides crucial information for quantifying the expected effects of future climate changes and thus informs strategic planning and decision-making in various domains. However, such long-term predictions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Jinfu Ren , Yang Liu , Jiming Liu

The widespread of fake news and misinformation in various domains ranging from politics, economics to public health has posed an urgent need to automatically fact-check information. A recent trend in fake news detection is to utilize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Nguyen Vo , Kyumin Lee

Social media platforms enable the rapid dissemination and consumption of information. However, users instantly consume such content regardless of the reliability of the shared data. Consequently, the latter crowdsourcing model is exposed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , Juan Carlos Burguillo

Although misinformation tends to spread online, it can have serious real-world consequences. In order to develop automated tools to detect and mitigate the impact of misinformation, researchers must leverage algorithms that can adapt to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Erik J Schlicht

Identifying bias in LLMs is ongoing. Because they are still in development, what is true today may be false tomorrow. We therefore need general strategies for debiasing that will outlive current models. Strategies developed for debiasing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Thomas T. Hills

The move of propaganda and disinformation to the online environment is possible thanks to the fact that within the last decade, digital information channels radically increased in popularity as a news source. The main advantage of such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Aleš Horák , Vít Baisa , Ondřej Herman

To tackle the global climate challenge, it urgently needs to develop a collaborative platform for comprehensive weather forecasting on large-scale meteorological data. Despite urgency, heterogeneous meteorological sensors across countries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Shengchao Chen , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Jing Jiang

The goal of climate change governance is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations. This requires the reduction of anthropogenic global net emissions. In the pursuit of such a reduction, knowledge of greenhouse gas sources and sinks is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-11 Sébastien Philippe

Misinformation is still a major societal problem and the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) only added to it. This paper analyzes synthetic, false, and genuine information in the form of text from spectral analysis, visualization, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Vishnu S. Pendyala , Madhulika Dutta