News in an online world: The need for an “automatic crap detector”

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Chen, Yimin ^a   Conroy, Niall J ^a   Rubin, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

credibility assessment; deception detection; fake news detection; journalism practices; media commercialization; natural language processing; News verification; online news

Indexed keywords

FAKE DETECTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMMERCIALISATION; CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT; DECEPTION DETECTION; FAKE NEWS DETECTION; JOURNALISM PRACTICE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEDIUM COMMERCIALIZATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NEWS VERIFICATION; ONLINE NEWS;

INFORMATION FILTERING;

EID: 84987711761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010081     Document Type: Article

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