Fake News Detection using Deep Markov Random Fields

Duc Minh Nguyen, Tien Huu Do, Robert Calderbank, Nikos Deligiannis


Abstract
Deep-learning-based models have been successfully applied to the problem of detecting fake news on social media. While the correlations among news articles have been shown to be effective cues for online news analysis, existing deep-learning-based methods often ignore this information and only consider each news article individually. To overcome this limitation, we develop a graph-theoretic method that inherits the power of deep learning while at the same time utilizing the correlations among the articles. We formulate fake news detection as an inference problem in a Markov random field (MRF) which can be solved by the iterative mean-field algorithm. We then unfold the mean-field algorithm into hidden layers that are composed of common neural network operations. By integrating these hidden layers on top of a deep network, which produces the MRF potentials, we obtain our deep MRF model for fake news detection. Experimental results on well-known datasets show that the proposed model improves upon various state-of-the-art models.
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N19-1141
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers)
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June
Year:
2019
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Jill Burstein, Christy Doran, Thamar Solorio
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1391–1400
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https://aclanthology.org/N19-1141
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N19-1141
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Duc Minh Nguyen, Tien Huu Do, Robert Calderbank, and Nikos Deligiannis. 2019. Fake News Detection using Deep Markov Random Fields. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers), pages 1391–1400, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Fake News Detection using Deep Markov Random Fields (Nguyen et al., NAACL 2019)
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