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Social networking services (SNS), such as Twitter, disseminate not only useful information, but also false information. Identifying this false information is crucial in order to keep the information on a SNS reliable. The aim of this paper is to develop a method of extracting false information from among a large collection of tweets. We do so by using a set of linguistic patterns formulated to correct false information. More specifically, the proposed method extracts text passages that match specified correction patterns, clusters the passages into topics of false information, and selects a passage that represents each topic of false information. In the experiment we conduct, we build an evaluation set manually, and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
This paper was partly supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grants No. 23240018 and 23700159 and by the Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). We are grateful to Twitter Japan for its provision of invaluable data.
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Nabeshima, K., Mizuno, J., Okazaki, N., Inui, K. (2014). Mining False Information on Twitter for a Major Disaster Situation. In: Ślȩzak, D., Schaefer, G., Vuong, S.T., Kim, YS. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8610. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09912-5_9
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