Hostility Detection and Covid-19 Fake News Detection in Social Media [article]

Ayush Gupta, Rohan Sukumaran, Kevin John, Sundeep Teki
2021 arXiv   pre-print
Withtheadventofsocialmedia,therehasbeenanextremely rapid increase in the content shared online. Consequently, the propagation of fake news and hostile messages on social media platforms has also skyrocketed. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting hostile and fake content in the Devanagari (Hindi) script as a multi-class, multi-label problem. Using NLP techniques, we build a model that makes use of an abusive language detector coupled with features extracted via Hindi BERT and Hindi
more » ... astText models and metadata. Our model achieves a 0.97 F1 score on coarse grain evaluation on Hostility detection task. Additionally, we built models to identify fake news related to Covid-19 in English tweets. We leverage entity information extracted from the tweets along with textual representations learned from word embeddings and achieve a 0.93 F1 score on the English fake news detection task.
arXiv:2101.05953v1 fatcat:ttwfdvmgtvh5rm6uumvwlylf54