We Built a Fake News / Click Bait Filter: What Happened Next Will Blow Your Mind!

Georgi Karadzhov, Pepa Gencheva, Preslav Nakov, Ivan Koychev


Abstract
It is completely amazing! Fake news and “click baits” have totally invaded the cyberspace. Let us face it: everybody hates them for three simple reasons. Reason #2 will absolutely amaze you. What these can achieve at the time of election will completely blow your mind! Now, we all agree, this cannot go on, you know, somebody has to stop it. So, we did this research, and trust us, it is totally great research, it really is! Make no mistake. This is the best research ever! Seriously, come have a look, we have it all: neural networks, attention mechanism, sentiment lexicons, author profiling, you name it. Lexical features, semantic features, we absolutely have it all. And we have totally tested it, trust us! We have results, and numbers, really big numbers. The best numbers ever! Oh, and analysis, absolutely top notch analysis. Interested? Come read the shocking truth about fake news and clickbait in the Bulgarian cyberspace. You won’t believe what we have found!
Anthology ID:
R17-1045
Volume:
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
334–343
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_045
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_045
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Georgi Karadzhov, Pepa Gencheva, Preslav Nakov, and Ivan Koychev. 2017. We Built a Fake News / Click Bait Filter: What Happened Next Will Blow Your Mind!. In Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017, pages 334–343, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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We Built a Fake News / Click Bait Filter: What Happened Next Will Blow Your Mind! (Karadzhov et al., RANLP 2017)
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