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Early detection of fake news on emerging topics through weak supervision
Date
2024-01-01
Author
Akdag, Serhat Hakki
Çiçekli, Fehime Nihan
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In this paper, we present a methodology for the early detection of fake news on emerging topics through the innovative application of weak supervision. Traditional techniques for fake news detection often rely on fact-checkers or supervised learning with labeled data, which is not readily available for emerging topics. To address this, we introduce the Weakly Supervised Text Classification framework (WeSTeC), an end-to-end solution designed to programmatically label large-scale text datasets within specific domains and train supervised text classifiers using the assigned labels. The proposed framework automatically generates labeling functions through multiple weak labeling strategies and eliminates underperforming ones. Labels assigned through the generated labeling functions are then used to fine-tune a pre-trained RoBERTa classifier for fake news detection. By using a weakly labeled dataset, which contains fake news related to the emerging topic, the trained fake news detection model becomes specialized for the topic under consideration. We explore both semi-supervision and domain adaptation setups, utilizing small amounts of labeled data and labeled data from other domains, respectively. The fake news classification model generated by the proposed framework excels when compared with all baselines in both setups. In addition, when compared to its fully supervised counterpart, our fake news detection model trained through weak labels achieves accuracy within 1%, emphasizing the robustness of the proposed framework’s weak labeling capabilities.
Subject Keywords
Fake news detection
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Language models
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Text classification
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Weakly supervised learning
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85187953117&origin=inward
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109324
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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-024-00852-1
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S. H. Akdag and F. N. Çiçekli, “Early detection of fake news on emerging topics through weak supervision,”
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
, pp. 0–0, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85187953117&origin=inward.