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Stance classification in out-of-domain rumours : a case study around mental health disorders

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Aker, Ahmet, Zubiaga, Arkaitz, Bontcheva, Kalina, Kolliakou, Anna, Procter, Rob and Liakata, Maria (2017) Stance classification in out-of-domain rumours : a case study around mental health disorders. In: Social Informatics 2017, Oxford, 13-15 Sep 2017. Published in: Social Informatics. SocInfo 2017, 10540 pp. 53-64. ISBN 9783319672564. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_6 ISSN 0302-9743.

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Abstract

Social media being a prolific source of rumours, stance classification of individual posts towards rumours has gained attention in the past few years. Classification of stance in individual posts can then be useful to determine the veracity of a rumour. Research in this direction has looked at rumours in different domains, such as politics, natural disasters or terrorist attacks. However, work has been limited to in-domain experiments, i.e. training and testing data belong to the same domain. This presents the caveat that when one wants to deal with rumours in domains that are more obscure, training data tends to be scarce. This is the case of mental health disorders, which we explore here. Having annotated collections of tweets around rumours emerged in the context of breaking news, we study the performance stability when switching to the new domain of mental health disorders. Our study confirms that performance drops when we apply our trained model on a new domain, emphasising the differences in rumours across domains. We overcome this issue by using a little portion of the target domain data for training, which leads to a substantial boost in performance. We also release the new dataset with mental health rumours annotated for stance.

Item Type: Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Rumor in mass media, Online social networks -- Social aspects, Social media, Twitter (Firm), Data mining, Mental illness
Series Name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Journal or Publication Title: Social Informatics. SocInfo 2017
Publisher: Springer
Place of Publication: Cham
ISBN: 9783319672564
ISSN: 0302-9743
Book Title: Social Informatics
Official Date: 2 September 2017
Dates:
DateEvent
2 September 2017Published
3 July 2017Accepted
Volume: 10540
Page Range: pp. 53-64
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67256-4_6
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 19 September 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 19 September 2017
Funder: European Union (EU), Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Alan Turing Institute
Grant number: 654024 (EU), 611223 (PF7), GRK 2167 (DFG)
Conference Paper Type: Paper
Title of Event: Social Informatics 2017
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Oxford
Date(s) of Event: 13-15 Sep 2017

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