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Frameannotator - A Web-Based Frame Semantic Annotation Tool, Sarbajit Roy
Frameannotator - A Web-Based Frame Semantic Annotation Tool, Sarbajit Roy
Computer Science and Engineering Theses
News headlines around the world are alarming. They aim to trigger emotional responses from the consumer. In an era where news and social media posts spread so quickly, it is often difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is false. Human fact-checking fails to cope with the growth of such unprecedented information, thus increasing the demand and various steps of automatic fact-checking to judge the veracity of claims. An automatic fact-checking system is a statistical model that can help to detect misinformation. The current state-of-the-art frame semantic parsers suffer from lack of a large annotated data-set and there …
Claimportal: Building A Social Media Analytics System For Assisting Fact-Checking, Sarthak Majithia
Claimportal: Building A Social Media Analytics System For Assisting Fact-Checking, Sarthak Majithia
Computer Science and Engineering Theses
We are in a digital era where claims made by people can attract attention and spread like wildfire. Misinformation and disinformation about important social and political issues can be intentional and motive can be malicious. Thus, we built a Twitter monitoring platform, namely, ClaimPortal. It assists its users by searching, checking, and providing analytics of factual claims made by politicians and influential people on Twitter. ClaimPortal empowers users with a search API which enables filtering conditions such as date range, tweets from/mentioning specific users, keyword based search, hashtags, check-worthiness scores, and types of claims. We explain the architecture of ClaimPortal …