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Fully Automated Fact Checking Using External Sources
Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in recent
years, there has been also a growing research interest in automatically
distinguishing false rumors from factually true claims. Here, we propose a
general-purpose framework for fully-automatic fact checking using external
sources, tapping the potential of the entire Web as a knowledge source to
confirm or reject a claim. Our framework uses a deep neural network with LSTM
text encoding to combine semantic kernels with task-specific embeddings that
encode a claim together with pieces of potentially-relevant text fragments from
the Web, taking the source reliability into account. The evaluation results
show good performance on two different tasks and datasets: (i) rumor detection
and (ii) fact checking of the answers to a question in community question
answering forums.Comment: RANLP-201
Social networks : service selection and recommendation
University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.The Service-Oriented Computing paradigm is widely acknowledged for its potential to
revolutionize the world of computing through the utilization of Web services. It is expected
that Web services will fully leverage the Semantic Web to outsource some of their
functionalities to other Web services that provide value-added services, and by integrating
the business logic of Web services in the form of business to business and business to
consumer e-commerce applications.
In the Service Web, Web services and Web-Based Social Networks are emerging in which
a wide range of similar functionalities are expected to be offered by a vast number of Web
services, and applications can search and compose services according to users’ needs in a
seamless and an automatic fashion. Web services are expected to outsource some of their
functionalities to other Web services. In such situations, some services may be new to the
service market, and some may act maliciously in order to be selected. A key requirement is
to provide mechanisms for quality selection and recommendation of relevant Web services
with perceived risk considerations.
Although the future of Web service selection and recommendation looks promising, there
are challenging issues related to user knowledge and behavior, as well as issues related to
recommendation approaches. This dissertation addresses the demanding issues in Web
service selection and recommendation from theory and practice perspectives. These
challenges include cold-start users, who represent more than 50% of the social network
population, the capture of users’ preferences, risk mitigation in service selection,
customers’ privacy and application scalability.
This dissertation proposes a novel approach to automate social-based Web service
selection and recommendation in a dynamic environment. It utilizes Web-Based Social
Networks and the “Follow the Leader” strategy, for a Credibility-based framework that
includes two credibility models: the user Credibility model which is used to qualify
consumers as either leaders or followers based on their credibility, and the service
Credibility model which is used to identify the best services that act as market leaders.
Experimental evaluation results demonstrate that the social network service selection and
recommendation approach utilizing the credibility-based framework and “Follow the
Leader” strategy provides an efficient, effective and scalable provision of credible services,
especially for cold-start users. The research results take a further step towards developing a
social-based automated and dynamically adaptive Web service selection and
recommendation system in the future
Fact Checking in Community Forums
Community Question Answering (cQA) forums are very popular nowadays, as they
represent effective means for communities around particular topics to share
information. Unfortunately, this information is not always factual. Thus, here
we explore a new dimension in the context of cQA, which has been ignored so
far: checking the veracity of answers to particular questions in cQA forums. As
this is a new problem, we create a specialized dataset for it. We further
propose a novel multi-faceted model, which captures information from the answer
content (what is said and how), from the author profile (who says it), from the
rest of the community forum (where it is said), and from external authoritative
sources of information (external support). Evaluation results show a MAP value
of 86.54, which is 21 points absolute above the baseline.Comment: AAAI-2018; Fact-Checking; Veracity; Community-Question Answering;
Neural Networks; Distributed Representation
Computational fact checking from knowledge networks
Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the
enormous volume of information that is now generated online. Computational fact
checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate the veracity of
dubious information. Here we show that the complexities of human fact checking
can be approximated quite well by finding the shortest path between concept
nodes under properly defined semantic proximity metrics on knowledge graphs.
Framed as a network problem this approach is feasible with efficient
computational techniques. We evaluate this approach by examining tens of
thousands of claims related to history, entertainment, geography, and
biographical information using a public knowledge graph extracted from
Wikipedia. Statements independently known to be true consistently receive
higher support via our method than do false ones. These findings represent a
significant step toward scalable computational fact-checking methods that may
one day mitigate the spread of harmful misinformation
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