Yang et. al., SIGKDD 2012
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Fan Yang, Yang Liu, Xiaohui Yu, and Min Yang. 2012. Automatic detection of rumor on Sina Weibo. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Mining Data Semantics (MDS '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
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Automatic detection of rumor on Sina Weibo
Summary
This Paper addresses the problem of Rumor Detection in Weibo (equivalent to Twitter in Mainland China). A classifier is trained using manually annotated data (identified false rumors) from a rumor-busting service available in Sina Weibo.
This study uses features applied in previous work on Twitter Rumor Detection and analyses the different effects of these features in Weibo. Furthermore, it proposes new features that improve the overall results.
