Linguistic predictors of rumor veracity on the Internet

Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science

Volumn 1, Issue , 2016, Pages 387-391

  Chua, Alton Y K ^a   Banerjee, Snehasish ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Linguistic analysis; Online rumors; Trust; Veracity; Virality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERNET;

AUTHENTICITY; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; ONLINE RUMORS; TRUST; VERACITY; VIRALITY;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84978695647     PISSN: 20780958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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