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title = "Enhancing Society-Undermining Disinformation Detection through Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis Pre-Finetuning",
author = "Pan, Tsung-Hsuan and
Chen, Chung-Chi and
Huang, Hen-Hsen and
Chen, Hsin-Hsi",
editor = "Graham, Yvette and
Purver, Matthew",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024",
month = mar,
year = "2024",
address = "St. Julian{'}s, Malta",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.92",
pages = "1371--1377",
abstract = "In the era of the digital world, while freedom of speech has been flourishing, it has also paved the way for disinformation, causing detrimental effects on society. Legal and ethical criteria are insufficient to address this concern, thus necessitating technological intervention. This paper presents a novel method leveraging pre-finetuning concept for efficient detection and removal of disinformation that may undermine society, as deemed by judicial entities. We argue the importance of detecting this type of disinformation and validate our approach with real-world data derived from court orders. Following a study that highlighted four areas of interest for rumor analysis, our research proposes the integration of a fine-grained sentiment analysis task in the pre-finetuning phase of language models, using the GoEmotions dataset. Our experiments validate the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing performance significantly. Furthermore, we explore the application of our approach across different languages using multilingual language models, showing promising results. To our knowledge, this is the first study that investigates the role of sentiment analysis pre-finetuning in disinformation detection.",
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%T Enhancing Society-Undermining Disinformation Detection through Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis Pre-Finetuning
%A Pan, Tsung-Hsuan
%A Chen, Chung-Chi
%A Huang, Hen-Hsen
%A Chen, Hsin-Hsi
%Y Graham, Yvette
%Y Purver, Matthew
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 March
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C St. Julian’s, Malta
%F pan-etal-2024-enhancing
%X In the era of the digital world, while freedom of speech has been flourishing, it has also paved the way for disinformation, causing detrimental effects on society. Legal and ethical criteria are insufficient to address this concern, thus necessitating technological intervention. This paper presents a novel method leveraging pre-finetuning concept for efficient detection and removal of disinformation that may undermine society, as deemed by judicial entities. We argue the importance of detecting this type of disinformation and validate our approach with real-world data derived from court orders. Following a study that highlighted four areas of interest for rumor analysis, our research proposes the integration of a fine-grained sentiment analysis task in the pre-finetuning phase of language models, using the GoEmotions dataset. Our experiments validate the effectiveness of our approach in enhancing performance significantly. Furthermore, we explore the application of our approach across different languages using multilingual language models, showing promising results. To our knowledge, this is the first study that investigates the role of sentiment analysis pre-finetuning in disinformation detection.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.92
%P 1371-1377
Markdown (Informal)
[Enhancing Society-Undermining Disinformation Detection through Fine-Grained Sentiment Analysis Pre-Finetuning](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.92) (Pan et al., Findings 2024)
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