Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Subject "Fact-checking"
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ClaimPortal: Building a Social Media Analytics System for Assisting Fact-Checking
(2019-05-14)We are in a digital era where claims made by people can attract attention and spread like wildfire. Misinformation and disinformation about important social and political issues can be intentional and motive can be malicious. ... -
Classification of Factual and Non-Factual Statements Using Adversarially Trained LSTM Networks
(2020-06-08)Being able to determine which statements are factual and therefore likely candidates for further verification is a key value-add in any automated fact-checking system. For this task, it has been shown that LSTMs outperform ... -
FrameAnnotator - A Web-Based Frame Semantic Annotation Tool
(2019-05-14)News headlines around the world are alarming. They aim to trigger emotional responses from the consumer. In an era where news and social media posts spread so quickly, it is often difficult to distinguish between what is ... -
MODELING FACTUAL CLAIMS WITH SEMANTIC FRAMES: DEFINITIONS, DATASETS, TOOLS, AND FACT-CHECKING APPLICATIONS
(2021-08-26)As social media sites have become major channels for the quick dissemination of news, misinformation has become a significant challenge for our society to tackle. Today fact-checking rests primarily on the shoulders of ... -
TOWARD AUTOMATED FACT MONITORING AND CHECKING
(2016-08-12)Public figures such as politicians make claims about "facts" all the time. Oftentimes there are false, exaggerated and misleading claims on important topics, due to careless mistakes and even deliberate manipulation of ...