An NLP Analysis of Exaggerated Claims in Science News

Yingya Li, Jieke Zhang, Bei Yu


Abstract
The discrepancy between science and media has been affecting the effectiveness of science communication. Original findings from science publications may be distorted with altered claim strength when reported to the public, causing misinformation spread. This study conducts an NLP analysis of exaggerated claims in science news, and then constructed prediction models for identifying claim strength levels in science reporting. The results demonstrate different writing styles journal articles and news/press releases use for reporting scientific findings. Preliminary prediction models reached promising result with room for further improvement.
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W17-4219
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism
Month:
September
Year:
2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Octavian Popescu, Carlo Strapparava
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WS
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
106–111
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-4219
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-4219
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Yingya Li, Jieke Zhang, and Bei Yu. 2017. An NLP Analysis of Exaggerated Claims in Science News. In Proceedings of the 2017 EMNLP Workshop: Natural Language Processing meets Journalism, pages 106–111, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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An NLP Analysis of Exaggerated Claims in Science News (Li et al., 2017)
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