Linguistic Predictors of Rumor Veracity on the Internet

• Main Authors: Banerjee, Snehasish, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Online Rumors; Veracity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85826; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43864; http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2016/IMECS2016_pp387-391.pdf
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper attempts to investigate the role of language in predicting the veracity of rumors on the Internet. Specifically, it seeks to examine rumor veracity as a function of six groups of linguistic predictors. These include rumors' (1) comprehensibility, (2) sentiment, (3) time-orientation,...