@inproceedings{hossain-etal-2020-covidlies,
title = "{COVIDL}ies: Detecting {COVID}-19 Misinformation on Social Media",
author = "Hossain, Tamanna and
Logan IV, Robert L. and
Ugarte, Arjuna and
Matsubara, Yoshitomo and
Young, Sean and
Singh, Sameer",
editor = "Verspoor, Karin and
Cohen, Kevin Bretonnel and
Conway, Michael and
de Bruijn, Berry and
Dredze, Mark and
Mihalcea, Rada and
Wallace, Byron",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on {NLP} for {COVID}-19 (Part 2) at {EMNLP} 2020",
month = dec,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.11/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.11",
abstract = "The ongoing pandemic has heightened the need for developing tools to flag COVID-19-related misinformation on the internet, specifically on social media such as Twitter. However, due to novel language and the rapid change of information, existing misinformation detection datasets are not effective for evaluating systems designed to detect misinformation on this topic. Misinformation detection can be divided into two sub-tasks: (i) retrieval of misconceptions relevant to posts being checked for veracity, and (ii) stance detection to identify whether the posts Agree, Disagree, or express No Stance towards the retrieved misconceptions. To facilitate research on this task, we release COVIDLies (\url{https://ucinlp.github.io/covid19} ), a dataset of 6761 expert-annotated tweets to evaluate the performance of misinformation detection systems on 86 different pieces of COVID-19 related misinformation. We evaluate existing NLP systems on this dataset, providing initial benchmarks and identifying key challenges for future models to improve upon."
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%A Young, Sean
%A Singh, Sameer
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%Y Dredze, Mark
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Markdown (Informal)
[COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media](https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.11/) (Hossain et al., NLP-COVID19 2020)
ACL
- Tamanna Hossain, Robert L. Logan IV, Arjuna Ugarte, Yoshitomo Matsubara, Sean Young, and Sameer Singh. 2020. COVIDLies: Detecting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 (Part 2) at EMNLP 2020, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.