CUET_DUO@DravidianLangTech EACL2024: Fake News Classification Using Malayalam-BERT

Tanzim Rahman, Abu Raihan, Md. Rahman, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Avishek Das, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque


Abstract
Identifying between fake and original news in social media demands vigilant procedures. This paper introduces the significant shared task on ‘Fake News Detection in Dravidian Languages - DravidianLangTech@EACL 2024’. With a focus on the Malayalam language, this task is crucial in identifying social media posts as either fake or original news. The participating teams contribute immensely to this task through their varied strategies, employing methods ranging from conventional machine-learning techniques to advanced transformer-based models. Notably, the findings of this work highlight the effectiveness of the Malayalam-BERT model, demonstrating an impressive macro F1 score of 0.88 in distinguishing between fake and original news in Malayalam social media content, achieving a commendable rank of 1st among the participants.
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2024.dravidianlangtech-1.37
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
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March
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2024
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St. Julian's, Malta
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Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar Madasamy, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly, Rajeswari Nadarajan, Manikandan Ravikiran
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DravidianLangTech | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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223–228
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Tanzim Rahman, Abu Raihan, Md. Rahman, Jawad Hossain, Shawly Ahsan, Avishek Das, and Mohammed Moshiul Hoque. 2024. CUET_DUO@DravidianLangTech EACL2024: Fake News Classification Using Malayalam-BERT. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 223–228, St. Julian's, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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CUET_DUO@DravidianLangTech EACL2024: Fake News Classification Using Malayalam-BERT (Rahman et al., DravidianLangTech-WS 2024)
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