Profiling Fake News Spreaders using Characters and Words N-grams Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2020

Daniel Yacob Espinosa, Helena Gómez-Adorno, Grigori Sidorov

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Abstract

With the use of social networks as mass media; The spread of fake news becomes an investigative problem. This article describes our approach to the PAN 2020 task on "Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter" [7]. The objective is to distinguish which users share fake news. Our approach includes a data cleaning part and feature extraction using N-grams of characters and words. The experiments were carried out with different N-gram structures depending on the languages: English and Spanish. We experimented machine learning algorithm Support Vector Machines (libSVM).

Original languageEnglish
JournalCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2696
StatePublished - 2020
Event11th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2020 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 22 Sep 202025 Sep 2020

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