AndrejJan at SemEval-2019 Task 7: A Fusion Approach for Exploring the Key Factors pertaining to Rumour Analysis

Andrej Janchevski, Sonja Gievska


Abstract
The viral spread of false, unverified and misleading information on the Internet has attracted a heightened attention of an interdisciplinary research community on the phenomenon. This paper contributes to the research efforts of automatically determining the veracity of rumourous tweets and classifying their replies according to stance. Our research objective was to investigate the interplay between a number of phenomenological and contextual features of rumours, in particular, we explore the extent to which network structural characteristics, metadata and user profiles could complement the linguistic analysis of the written content for the task at hand. The current findings strongly demonstrate that supplementary sources of information play significant role in classifying the veracity and the stance of Twitter interactions deemed to be rumourous.
Anthology ID:
S19-2190
Volume:
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
Month:
June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Editors:
Jonathan May, Ekaterina Shutova, Aurelie Herbelot, Xiaodan Zhu, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1083–1089
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/S19-2190
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S19-2190
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Andrej Janchevski and Sonja Gievska. 2019. AndrejJan at SemEval-2019 Task 7: A Fusion Approach for Exploring the Key Factors pertaining to Rumour Analysis. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, pages 1083–1089, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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AndrejJan at SemEval-2019 Task 7: A Fusion Approach for Exploring the Key Factors pertaining to Rumour Analysis (Janchevski & Gievska, SemEval 2019)
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