Exploring thematic coherence in fake news

Martins Samuel Dogo; Deepak Padmanabhan; Anna Jurek-Loughrey

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_40

Exploring thematic coherence in fake news

Martins Samuel Dogo^*, Deepak Padmanabhan, Anna Jurek-Loughrey

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School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

The spread of fake news remains a serious global issue; understanding and curtailing it is paramount. One way of differentiating between deceptive and truthful stories is by analyzing their coherence. This study explores the use of topic models to analyze the coherence of cross-domain news shared online. Experimental results on seven cross-domain datasets demonstrate that fake news shows a greater thematic deviation between its opening sentences and its remainder.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020): SoGood 2020, PDFL 2020, MLCS 2020, NFMCP 2020, DINA 2020, EDML 2020, XKDD 2020 and INRA 2020: proceedings
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Pages	571-580
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030659653
ISBN (Print)	9783030659646
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_40
Publication status	Published - 02 Feb 2021
Event	8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2020) - Duration: 14 Sep 2020 → 14 Sep 2020 https://www.ntnu.no/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=188580623

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	1323
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Workshop

Workshop	8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2020)
Period	14/09/2020 → 14/09/2020
Internet address	https://www.ntnu.no/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=188580623

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Dogo, M. S., Padmanabhan, D., & Jurek-Loughrey, A. (2021). Exploring thematic coherence in fake news. In Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020): SoGood 2020, PDFL 2020, MLCS 2020, NFMCP 2020, DINA 2020, EDML 2020, XKDD 2020 and INRA 2020: proceedings (pp. 571-580). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1323). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_40

Dogo, Martins Samuel ; Padmanabhan, Deepak ; Jurek-Loughrey, Anna. / Exploring thematic coherence in fake news. Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020): SoGood 2020, PDFL 2020, MLCS 2020, NFMCP 2020, DINA 2020, EDML 2020, XKDD 2020 and INRA 2020: proceedings. Springer, Cham, 2021. pp. 571-580 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Dogo, MS , Padmanabhan, D & Jurek-Loughrey, A 2021, Exploring thematic coherence in fake news. in Workshops of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2020): SoGood 2020, PDFL 2020, MLCS 2020, NFMCP 2020, DINA 2020, EDML 2020, XKDD 2020 and INRA 2020: proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1323, Springer, Cham, pp. 571-580, 8th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2020), 14/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65965-3_40

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