rumour-detection-twitter

Rumour Detection

You can test the model at Rumour-Detection-Twitter | SGNLP-Demo.<br /> If you want to find out more information, please contact us at [email protected].

Table of Contents

• Model Details
• How to Get Started With the Model
• Training
• Model Parameters
• Other Information

Model Details

Model Name: Rumour-Detection

• Description: This model is based on the hierarchical transformer architecture described in the associated paper.
• Paper: Interpretable rumor detection in microblogs by attending to user interactions. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, April 2020 (Vol. 34, No. 05, pp. 8783-8790).
• Author(s): Khoo, L. M. S., Chieu, H. L., Qian, Z., & Jiang, J. (2020).
• URL: https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/AAAI/article/view/6405

How to Get Started With the Model

Install Python package

SGnlp is an initiative by AI Singapore's NLP Hub. They aim to bridge the gap between research and industry, promote translational research, and encourage adoption of NLP techniques in the industry. <br><br> Various NLP models, other than aspect sentiment analysis are available in the python package. You can try them out at SGNLP-Demo | SGNLP-Github.

pip install sgnlp

Examples

For more full code (such as Rumour Detection), please refer to this SGNLP-Github. <br> Alternatively, you can also try out the Rumour-Detection-Twitter | SGNLP-Demo for Rumour-Detection-Twitter.

Training

The train and evaluation datasets were derived from the Twitter15, Twitter16 and PHEME datasets. The full dataset can be downloaded from the author's Dropbox.

• Training Config: Not available

Training Results

• Training Time: ~6 hours on a single V100 GPU.

Model Parameters

• Model Weights: link
• Model Config: link
• Model Inputs: Thread of tweets. The first tweet should be the target tweet.
• Model Outputs: Array of logits for each class (True, False, Unverified, Non-Rumour). This can be converted into probabilities using the softmax function.
• Model Size: ~60mb
• Model Inference Info: Not available.
• Usage Scenarios: Rumour detection / fake news detection on Twitter

Other Information

• Original Code: link