On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter: Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners

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  • Tu Ngoc Nguyen
  • Cheng Li
  • Claudia Niederée

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksSocial Informatics
Untertitel9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings
Herausgeber/-innenGiovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Taha Yasseri, Afra Mashhadi
ErscheinungsortCham
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer Verlag
Seiten141-158
Seitenumfang18
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-319-67256-4
ISBN (Print)9783319672557
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2 Sept. 2017
Veranstaltung9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017 - Oxford, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich
Dauer: 13 Sept. 201715 Sept. 2017

Publikationsreihe

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Band10540 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (elektronisch)1611-3349

Abstract

Recently a lot of progress has been made in rumor modeling and rumor detection for micro-blogging streams. However, existing automated methods do not perform very well for early rumor detection, which is crucial in many settings, e.g., in crisis situations. One reason for this is that aggregated rumor features such as propagation features, which work well on the long run, are - due to their accumulating characteristic - not very helpful in the early phase of a rumor. In this work, we present an approach for early rumor detection, which leverages Convolutional Neural Networks for learning the hidden representations of individual rumor-related tweets to gain insights on the credibility of each tweets. We then aggregate the predictions from the very beginning of a rumor to obtain the overall event credits (so-called wisdom), and finally combine it with a time series based rumor classification model. Our extensive experiments show a clearly improved classification performance within the critical very first hours of a rumor. For a better understanding, we also conduct an extensive feature evaluation that emphasized on the early stage and shows that the low-level credibility has best predictability at all phases of the rumor lifetime.

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On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter: Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners. / Nguyen, Tu Ngoc; Li, Cheng; Niederée, Claudia.
Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings. Hrsg. / Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia; Taha Yasseri; Afra Mashhadi. Cham: Springer Verlag, 2017. S. 141-158 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Band 10540 LNCS).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Nguyen, TN, Li, C & Niederée, C 2017, On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter: Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners. in GL Ciampaglia, T Yasseri & A Mashhadi (Hrsg.), Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Bd. 10540 LNCS, Springer Verlag, Cham, S. 141-158, 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich, 13 Sept. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_13
Nguyen, T. N., Li, C., & Niederée, C. (2017). On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter: Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners. In G. L. Ciampaglia, T. Yasseri, & A. Mashhadi (Hrsg.), Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings (S. 141-158). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Band 10540 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_13
Nguyen TN, Li C, Niederée C. On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter: Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners. in Ciampaglia GL, Yasseri T, Mashhadi A, Hrsg., Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings. Cham: Springer Verlag. 2017. S. 141-158. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_13
Nguyen, Tu Ngoc ; Li, Cheng ; Niederée, Claudia. / On early-stage debunking rumors on twitter : Leveraging the wisdom of weak learners. Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Proceedings. Hrsg. / Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia ; Taha Yasseri ; Afra Mashhadi. Cham : Springer Verlag, 2017. S. 141-158 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
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