Detecting rumors from microblogs with recurrent neural networks

• Main Authors: MA, Jing, GAO, Wei, MITRA, Prasenjit, KWON, Sejeong, JANSEN, Bernard J., WONG, Kam-Fai, CHA, Meeyoung
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4630; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5633/viewcontent/537.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Microblogging platforms are an ideal place for spreading rumors and automatically debunking rumors is a crucial problem. To detect rumors, existing approaches have relied on hand-crafted features for employing machine learning algorithms that require daunting manual effort. Upon facing a dubious cla...