MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach

Sharal Coelho, Asha Hegde, Kavya G, Hosahalli Lakshmaiah Shashirekha


Abstract
Social media is widely used to spread fake news, which affects a larger population. So it is considered as a very important task to detect fake news spread on social media platforms. To address the challenges in the identification of fake news in the Malayalam language, in this paper, we - team MUCS, describe the Machine Learning (ML) models submitted to “Fake News Detection in Dravidian Languages” at DravidianLangTech@RANLP 2023 shared task. Three different models, namely, Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB), Logistic Regression (LR), and Ensemble model (MNB, LR, and SVM) are trained using Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) of word unigrams. Among the three models ensemble model performed better with a macro F1-score of 0.83 and placed 3rd rank in the shared task.
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2023.dravidianlangtech-1.42
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Bharathi R. Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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288–292
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.dravidianlangtech-1.42
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Sharal Coelho, Asha Hegde, Kavya G, and Hosahalli Lakshmaiah Shashirekha. 2023. MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 288–292, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach (Coelho et al., DravidianLangTech-WS 2023)
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