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Zubiaga, Arkaitz, Liakata, Maria, Procter, Rob, Bontcheva, Kalina and Tolmie, Peter (2015) Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumourous conversations in social media. In: World Wide Web Conference, Florence, Italy, 18-22 May 2015. Published in: WWW 2015 Companion ISBN 9781450334730. doi:10.1145/2740908.2743052 (Submitted)
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Abstract
Social media are frequently rife with rumours, and the study of rumour conversational aspects can provide valuable knowledge about how rumours evolve over time and are discussed by others who support or deny them. In this work, we present a new annotation scheme for capturing rumour-bearing conversational threads, as well as the crowdsourcing methodology used to create high quality, human annotated datasets of rumourous conversations from social media. The rumour annotation scheme is validated through comparison between crowdsourced and reference annotations. We also found that only a third of the tweets in rumourous conversations contribute towards determining the veracity of rumours, which reinforces the need for developing methods to extract the relevant pieces of information automatically.
| Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social media, Rumor in mass media, Human computation | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | WWW 2015 Companion | ||||||
| Publisher: | ACM | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781450334730 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1145/2740908.2743052 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Submitted | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Funder: | Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7) | ||||||
| Grant number: | 611233 (FP7) | ||||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
| Title of Event: | World Wide Web Conference | ||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
| Location of Event: | Florence, Italy | ||||||
| Date(s) of Event: | 18-22 May 2015 | ||||||
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