TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20: Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy

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  • Gullal S. Cheema
  • Sherzod Hakimov
  • Ralph Ewerth

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  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksMultimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020
UntertitelWorking Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2020

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NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Herausgeber (Verlag)CEUR WS
Band2882
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Abstract

Fake news on social media has become a hot topic of research as it negatively impacts the discourse of real news in the public. Specifically, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise of inaccurate and misleading information due to the surrounding controversies and unknown details at the beginning of the pandemic. The FakeNews task at MediaEval 2020 tackles this problem by creating a challenge to automatically detect tweets containing misinformation based on text and structure from Twitter follower network. In this paper, we present a simple approach that uses BERT embeddings and a shallow neural network for classifying tweets using only text, and discuss our findings and limitations of the approach in text-based misinformation detection.

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TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20: Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy. / Cheema, Gullal S.; Hakimov, Sherzod; Ewerth, Ralph.
Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop. 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Band 2882).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschung

Cheema, GS, Hakimov, S & Ewerth, R 2020, TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20: Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy. in Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Bd. 2882. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2101.03529
Cheema, G. S., Hakimov, S., & Ewerth, R. (2020). TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20: Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy. In Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Band 2882). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2101.03529
Cheema GS, Hakimov S, Ewerth R. TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20: Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy. in Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop. 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2101.03529
Cheema, Gullal S. ; Hakimov, Sherzod ; Ewerth, Ralph. / TIB's visual analytics group at MediaEval '20 : Detecting fake news on corona virus and 5G conspiracy. Multimedia Benchmark Workshop 2020: Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop. 2020. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
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