On Early-stage Debunking Rumors on Twitter: Leveraging the Wisdom of Weak Learners

arXiv:1709.04402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recently a lot of progress has been made in rumor modeling and rumor detection for micro-blogging streams. However, existing automated methods do not perform very well for early rumor detection, which is crucial in many settings, e.g., in crisis situations. One reason for this is that aggregated rumor features such as propagation features, which work well on the long run, are - due to their accumulating characteristic - not very helpful in the early phase …

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