TY - GEN
T1 - BREAKING! Presenting fake news corpus for automated fact checking
AU - Pathak, Archita
AU - Srihari, Rohini K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Popular fake news articles spread faster than mainstream articles on the same topic which renders manual fact checking inefficient. At the same time, creating tools for automatic detection is as challenging due to lack of dataset containing articles which present fake or manipulated stories as compelling facts. In this paper, we introduce manually verified corpus of compelling fake and questionable news articles on the USA politics, containing around 700 articles from Aug-Nov, 2016. We present various analyses on this corpus and finally implement classification model based on linguistic features. This work is still in progress as we plan to extend the dataset in the future and use it for our approach towards automated fake news detection.
AB - Popular fake news articles spread faster than mainstream articles on the same topic which renders manual fact checking inefficient. At the same time, creating tools for automatic detection is as challenging due to lack of dataset containing articles which present fake or manipulated stories as compelling facts. In this paper, we introduce manually verified corpus of compelling fake and questionable news articles on the USA politics, containing around 700 articles from Aug-Nov, 2016. We present various analyses on this corpus and finally implement classification model based on linguistic features. This work is still in progress as we plan to extend the dataset in the future and use it for our approach towards automated fake news detection.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85084004901
U2 - 10.18653/v1/p19-2050
DO - 10.18653/v1/p19-2050
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084004901
T3 - ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
SP - 357
EP - 362
BT - ACL 2019 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019 - Student Research Workshop, SRW 2019
Y2 - 28 July 2019 through 2 August 2019
ER -