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Rating News Claims: Feature Selection And Evaluation, Izzat Alsmadi, Michael J. O'Brien
Rating News Claims: Feature Selection And Evaluation, Izzat Alsmadi, Michael J. O'Brien
Computer Science Faculty Publications
News claims that travel the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) originate from different, sometimes unknown sources, which raises issues related to the credibility of those claims and the drivers behind them. Fact-checking websites such as Snopes, FactCheck, and Emergent use human evaluators to investigate and label news claims, but the process is labor- and time-intensive. Driven by the need to use data analytics and algorithms in assessing the credibility of news claims, we focus on what can be generalized about evaluating human-labeled claims. We developed tools to extract claims from Snopes and Emergent and used public datasets collected by …