Detect rumor and stance jointly by neural multi-task learning

• Main Authors: MA, Jing, GAO, Wei, WONG, Kam-Fai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: microblog; multi-task learning; weight sharing; rumor detection; stance classification; social media; Databases and Information Systems; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4562; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5565/viewcontent/p585_ma.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In recent years, an unhealthy phenomenon characterized as the massive spread of fake news or unverified information (i.e., rumors) has become increasingly a daunting issue in human society. The rumors commonly originate from social media outlets, primarily microblogging platforms, being viral afterw...