Evaluating Standard Classifiers for Detecting COVID-19 related Misinformation
Published in IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems, 2020
This paper summarises the results created through participation in the task FakeNews: Corona Virus and 5G Conspiracy of the MediaEval Multimedia Evaluation Challenge 2020. The task consists of two parts intending to detect tweets and retweet cascades that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic and causally connect the radiation of 5G networks with the virus. We applied several well-established neural networks and machine learning techniques for the first subtasks, namely, textual information classification. For the second task, the retweet cascades analysis, we rely on classifiers that work on established graph features, such as the clustering coefficient or graph diameter. Our results show a MCC-score of 0.148 or 0.162 for the NLP task and 0.02 for the structure task.
Bibtex
@inproceedings{SchroederEvalStdCla,
author = {Daniel Thilo Schroeder and
Konstantin Pogorelov and
Johannes Langguth},
editor = {Steven Hicks and
Debesh Jha and
Konstantin Pogorelov and
Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera and
Dmitry Bogdanov and
Pierre{-}Etienne Martin and
Stelios Andreadis and
Minh{-}Son Dao and
Zhuoran Liu and
Jose Vargas Quiros and
Benjamin Kille and
Martha A. Larson},
title = {Evaluating Standard Classifiers for Detecting {COVID-19} Related Misinformation},
booktitle = {Working Notes Proceedings of the MediaEval 2020 Workshop, Online,
14-15 December 2020},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
volume = {2882},
publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},
year = {2020},
url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2882/paper65.pdf},
timestamp = {Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:22:12 +0100},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/mediaeval/SchroederPL20.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}