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Exploiting context for rumour detection in social media
1. Exploiting context for rumour detection in social media
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter
9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017)
15th
September 2017
3. What IS NOT a rumour?
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There is confusion in the CS/CSS literature,
with many classifying rumour (false) vs
news (true).
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Rumour not necessarily fake, it’s not the
same as a hoax!
4. What IS a rumour?
Oxford English Dictionary:
A currently circulating story or report of
uncertain or doubtful truth.
e.g. ‘they were investigating rumours of a
massacre’
5. What IS a rumour?
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In line with other scientists since (Allport &
Postman, 1946):
“unverified and instrumentally relevant
information statements in circulation”
(Di Fonzo & Bordia, 2007)
6. So… rumour detection?
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Rumour detection consists in identifying
the parts of information that, while in
circulation, are unverified.
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We do this for breaking news stories.
9. Automated rumour detection
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Only work by (Zhao et al., 2015). Looking at
how others reply, e.g. is this true?
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Limitations:
– Regexps, not generalisable.
– Replies may delay or never come.
11. Our proposal
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Classify in real-time as soon as we observe
a tweet, don’t wait for replies.
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Caveat: Tweet may not say much, e.g.:
“Strange flag in #Sydney, not the one affiliated with #ISIS.”
“10 people have died”
12. Our proposal
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Look at context:
– What has been said before throughout the event?
– How do those help determine if current tweet is a
rumour?
17. Discussion
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Preceding context boosts real-time rumour
detection.
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Important to do it in real-time, prevent
rumour spreading!
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Rumour detection ≠ hoax detection!
– Nor fake news detection.
18. Questions?
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Further reading:
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter. Detection
and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys.
Forthcoming, pre-print at:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00656
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Dataset:
https://bitly.com/rumour-data
Contact: a.zubiaga@warwick.ac.uk, Twitter: @arkaitz