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http://dx.doi.org/10.22937/IJCSNS.2021.21.11.10

Deep Learning Based Rumor Detection for Arabic Micro-Text  

Alharbi, Shada (Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
Alyoubi, Khaled (Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
Alotaibi, Fahd (Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology)
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International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security / v.21, no.11, 2021 , pp. 73-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nowadays microblogs have become the most popular platforms to obtain and spread information. Twitter is one of the most used platforms to share everyday life event. However, rumors and misinformation on Arabic social media platforms has become pervasive which can create inestimable harm to society. Therefore, it is imperative to tackle and study this issue to distinguish the verified information from the unverified ones. There is an increasing interest in rumor detection on microblogs recently, however, it is mostly applied on English language while the work on Arabic language is still ongoing research topic and need more efforts. In this paper, we propose a combined Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) to detect rumors on Twitter dataset. Various experiments were conducted to choose the best hyper-parameters tuning to achieve the best results. Moreover, different neural network models are used to evaluate performance and compare results. Experiments show that the CNN-LSTM model achieved the best accuracy 0.95 and an F1-score of 0.94 which outperform the state-of-the-art methods.
Keywords
Rumor Detection; Natural Language Processing; Convolutional Neural Network; Long Short-Term Memory;
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