This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter

Several fake claims are commonly repeated over time, especially on social media. To identify such previous claims, the verified claim retrieval task was studied, where, for a given input claim, the goal is to find previously-verified claims that are relevant to it. However, this view assumes that ea...

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Main Author: Watheq, Mansour (author)
Other Authors: Elsayed, Tamer (author), Al-Ali, Abdulaziz (author)
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103414
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457323001516
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/49619
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Mansour, W., Elsayed, T., & Al-Ali, A. (2023). This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter. Information Processing & Management, 60(4), 103414.‏
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Verified claim checking
Fact checking
Fake news detection
Efficiency
Retrieval
Classification
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description Several fake claims are commonly repeated over time, especially on social media. To identify such previous claims, the verified claim retrieval task was studied, where, for a given input claim, the goal is to find previously-verified claims that are relevant to it. However, this view assumes that each claim was already verified, which may not be true for all claims in the real-world scenario. In this work, we introduce the Verified Claim Checking problem over Twitter, in which the relevant verified claims are retrieved only if the input claim was indeed previously-verified, thus saving computation time. We address the problem by proposing SpotVC, an end-to-end approach consisting of two stages, namely a filter and a reranker. The proposed filter achieved an average F1 of 0.81 while significantly reducing computation time. Moreover, the proposed reranker outperformed the state-of-the-art models on two public datasets and provided on-par performance on a third one. Overall, our proposed system exhibits an effective operational balance in the trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness for the real-world scenario.
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spelling This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over TwitterWatheq, MansourElsayed, TamerAl-Ali, AbdulazizVerified claim checkingFact checkingFake news detectionEfficiencyRetrievalClassificationSeveral fake claims are commonly repeated over time, especially on social media. To identify such previous claims, the verified claim retrieval task was studied, where, for a given input claim, the goal is to find previously-verified claims that are relevant to it. However, this view assumes that each claim was already verified, which may not be true for all claims in the real-world scenario. In this work, we introduce the Verified Claim Checking problem over Twitter, in which the relevant verified claims are retrieved only if the input claim was indeed previously-verified, thus saving computation time. We address the problem by proposing SpotVC, an end-to-end approach consisting of two stages, namely a filter and a reranker. The proposed filter achieved an average F1 of 0.81 while significantly reducing computation time. Moreover, the proposed reranker outperformed the state-of-the-art models on two public datasets and provided on-par performance on a third one. Overall, our proposed system exhibits an effective operational balance in the trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness for the real-world scenario.This work was made possible by NPRP grant# NPRP11S-1204-170060 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.Elsevier2023-11-23T07:45:00Z2023-07-31Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103414Mansour, W., Elsayed, T., & Al-Ali, A. (2023). This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter. Information Processing & Management, 60(4), 103414.‏03064573https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457323001516http://hdl.handle.net/10576/49619460enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:qspace.qu.edu.qa:10576/496192024-07-23T15:52:03Z
spellingShingle This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
Watheq, Mansour
Verified claim checking
Fact checking
Fake news detection
Efficiency
Retrieval
Classification
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title This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
title_full This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
title_fullStr This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
title_full_unstemmed This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
title_short This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
title_sort This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter
topic Verified claim checking
Fact checking
Fake news detection
Efficiency
Retrieval
Classification
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103414
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457323001516
http://hdl.handle.net/10576/49619