Detecting check-worthy factual claims in presidential debates

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 19-23-Oct-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 1835-1838

  Hassan, Naeemul ^a   Li, Chengkai ^a   Tremayne, Mark ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational journalism; Fact checking; Text classification

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TEXT PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISM; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PUBLIC FIGURE; TEXT CLASSIFICATION; TIME CHECKING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84958246458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2806416.2806652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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