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Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media

The popularity of the internet, smartphones, and social networks has contributed to the proliferation of misleading information like fake news and fake reviews on news blogs, online newspapers, and e-commerce applications. Fake news has a worldwide impact and potential to change political scenarios,...

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Autores principales: Akhter, Muhammad Pervez, Zheng, Jiangbin, Afzal, Farkhanda, Lin, Hui, Riaz, Saleem, Mehmood, Atif
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Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817059
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.425
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author Akhter, Muhammad Pervez
Zheng, Jiangbin
Afzal, Farkhanda
Lin, Hui
Riaz, Saleem
Mehmood, Atif
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Zheng, Jiangbin
Afzal, Farkhanda
Lin, Hui
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description The popularity of the internet, smartphones, and social networks has contributed to the proliferation of misleading information like fake news and fake reviews on news blogs, online newspapers, and e-commerce applications. Fake news has a worldwide impact and potential to change political scenarios, deceive people into increasing product sales, defaming politicians or celebrities, and misguiding visitors to stop visiting a place or country. Therefore, it is vital to find automatic methods to detect fake news online. In several past studies, the focus was the English language, but the resource-poor languages have been completely ignored because of the scarcity of labeled corpus. In this study, we investigate this issue in the Urdu language. Our contribution is threefold. First, we design an annotated corpus of Urdu news articles for the fake news detection tasks. Second, we explore three individual machine learning models to detect fake news. Third, we use five ensemble learning methods to ensemble the base-predictors’ predictions to improve the fake news detection system’s overall performance. Our experiment results on two Urdu news corpora show the superiority of ensemble models over individual machine learning models. Three performance metrics balanced accuracy, the area under the curve, and mean absolute error used to find that Ensemble Selection and Vote models outperform the other machine learning and ensemble learning models.
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spelling pubmed-79596602021-04-02 Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media Akhter, Muhammad Pervez Zheng, Jiangbin Afzal, Farkhanda Lin, Hui Riaz, Saleem Mehmood, Atif PeerJ Comput Sci Data Mining and Machine Learning The popularity of the internet, smartphones, and social networks has contributed to the proliferation of misleading information like fake news and fake reviews on news blogs, online newspapers, and e-commerce applications. Fake news has a worldwide impact and potential to change political scenarios, deceive people into increasing product sales, defaming politicians or celebrities, and misguiding visitors to stop visiting a place or country. Therefore, it is vital to find automatic methods to detect fake news online. In several past studies, the focus was the English language, but the resource-poor languages have been completely ignored because of the scarcity of labeled corpus. In this study, we investigate this issue in the Urdu language. Our contribution is threefold. First, we design an annotated corpus of Urdu news articles for the fake news detection tasks. Second, we explore three individual machine learning models to detect fake news. Third, we use five ensemble learning methods to ensemble the base-predictors’ predictions to improve the fake news detection system’s overall performance. Our experiment results on two Urdu news corpora show the superiority of ensemble models over individual machine learning models. Three performance metrics balanced accuracy, the area under the curve, and mean absolute error used to find that Ensemble Selection and Vote models outperform the other machine learning and ensemble learning models. PeerJ Inc. 2021-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7959660/ /pubmed/33817059 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.425 Text en © 2021 Akhter et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Computer Science) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Akhter, Muhammad Pervez
Zheng, Jiangbin
Afzal, Farkhanda
Lin, Hui
Riaz, Saleem
Mehmood, Atif
Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media
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title_full Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media
title_fullStr Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media
title_full_unstemmed Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media
title_short Supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering Urdu fake news within social media
title_sort supervised ensemble learning methods towards automatically filtering urdu fake news within social media
topic Data Mining and Machine Learning
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33817059
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.425
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