Detection of Online Fake News Using N-Gram Analysis and Machine Learning Techniques

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 10618 LNCS, Issue , 2017, Pages 127-138

  Ahmed, Hadeer ^a   Traore, Issa ^a   Saad, Sherif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fake news detection; N gram analysis; Online fake news; Online social network security; Text classification

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); E-LEARNING; EXTRACTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NETWORK SECURITY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MACHINE CLASSIFICATIONS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; N-GRAMS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE FAKE NEWS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85032711154     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69155-8_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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