• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.3868-3888
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• 2022

A widely used social networking service like Twitter has the ability to disseminate information to large groups of people even during a pandemic. At the same time, it is a convenient medium to share irrelevant and unverified information online and poses a potential threat to society. In this research, conventional machine learning algorithms are analyzed to classify the data as either non-rumor data or rumor data. Machine learning techniques have limited tuning capability and make decisions based on their learning. To tackle this problem the authors propose a deep learning-based Rumor Detection Neural Network model to predict the rumor tweet in real-world events. This model comprises three layers, AttCNN layer is used to extract local and position invariant features from the data, AttBi-LSTM layer to extract important semantic or contextual information and HPOOL to combine the down sampling patches of the input feature maps from the average and maximum pooling layers. A dataset from Kaggle and ground dataset #gaja are used to train the proposed Rumor Detection Neural Network to determine the veracity of the rumor. The experimental results of the RDNN Classifier demonstrate an accuracy of 93.24% and 95.41% in identifying rumor tweets in real-time events.

• 정보과학회 논문지
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• 제44권7호
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• pp.680-685
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• 2017

온라인 소셜미디어의 등장으로 방대한 사용자 데이터가 수집되고 이는 루머의 탐지와 같은 복잡하고 도전적인 사회 문제를 자료 기반 기법으로 해결할 수 있게끔 한다. 최근 딥러닝 기반 모델들이 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 빠르고 정확한 기법 중의 하나로서 소개되었다. 하지만 기존에 제시된 모델들은 전파 종료 후 작동하거나 오랜 관찰기간을 필요로 하여 활용성이 제한된다. 이 연구에서는 초기 소량 데이터만을 활용하는 recurrent neural networks (RNNs) 기반의 빠른 루머 분류 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제시된 모델은 소셜미디어 스트림을 시계열 자료로 변환하여 사용하며, 이 때 시계열 데이터는 팔로워 수와 같이 정보 전파자 관련 정보는 물론 주어진 컨텐츠에서 추론한 언어심리학적 감성의 점수로 구성된다. 수백만의 트윗을 포함하는 498개의 실제 루머 및 494개의 비루머 사례 분석을 통해 이 연구는 제안하는 RNN 기반 모델이 초기 30개의 트윗 만으로도 (초기 수시간) 0.74 F1의 높은 성능을 보임을 확인한다. 이러한 결과는 실제 응용가능한 수준의 빠르고 효율적인 루머 분류 알고리즘 개발의 초석이 된다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:소프트웨어 및 데이터공학
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.275-288
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 네트워크에서 충분히 많은 노드가 루머를 들었을 때 그 근원이 어디서부터 시작 되었는지를 추론하는 문제를 고려한다. 이것은 신기술의 확산, 인터넷에서의 컴퓨터 바이러스/스팸 감염, 인기 있는 주제의 tweeting 및 retweeting과 같은 많은 실제 환경에서 네트워크의 정보 확산이 빠르게 진행되고, 이 정보 중 일부는 다른 노드에게 악영향을 미칠 수 있기 때문에 매우 중요한 문제이다. 이 문제는 선행연구에 의해 감염된 노드의 수가 충분히 많으면 정규 트리의 경우에도 탐지 확률이 31%를 초과 할 수 없다는 것이 입증되었다. 이를 바탕으로 네트워크에 감염된 후보 노드에게 몇 가지 추가 질의를 하는 방법에 대해 조사하고 네트워크 관리자가 한정된 자산을 가지고 있을 때 각 노드에 대한 질의의 수를 어떻게 분배하는지에 대한 자산 할당 알고리즘을 제안한다. 마지막으로 제안한 방법에 대하여 다양한 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고 기존 선행 연구보다 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제21권11호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2021

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.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권8호
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• pp.3005-3027
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• 2015

Spam has become one of the top threats of micro-blogging networks as the representations of rumor spreading, advertisement abusing and malware distribution. With the increasing popularity of micro-blogging, the problems will exacerbate. Prior detection tools are either designed for specific types of spams or not robust enough. Spammers may escape easily from being detected by adjusting their behaviors. In this paper, we present a novel model to quantitatively evaluate information diffusion in micro-blogging networks. Under this model, we found that spam posts differ wildly from the non-spam ones. First, the propagations of non-spam posts mostly result from their followers, but those of spam posts are mainly from strangers. Second, the non-spam posts relatively last longer than the spam posts. Besides, the non-spam posts always get their first reposts/comments much sooner than the spam posts. With the features defined in our model, we propose an RBF-based approach to detect spams. Different from the previous works, in which the features are extracted from individual profiles or contents, the diffusion features are not determined by any single user but the crowd. Thus, our method is more robust because any single user's behavior changes will not affect the effectiveness. Besides, although the spams vary in types and forms, they're propagated in the same way, so our method is effective for all types of spams. With the real data crawled from the leading micro-blogging services of China, we are able to evaluate the effectiveness of our model. The experiment results show that our model can achieve high accuracy both in precision and recall.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2024

The use of the social media has become part of our daily life activities. The social web channels provide the content generation facility to its users who can share their views, opinions and experiences towards certain topics. The researchers are using the social media content for various research areas. Sentiment analysis, one of the most active research areas in last decade, is the process to extract reviews, opinions and sentiments of people. Sentiment analysis is applied in diverse sub-areas such as subjectivity analysis, polarity detection, and emotion detection. Stance classification has emerged as a new and interesting research area as it aims to determine whether the content writer is in favor, against or neutral towards the target topic or issue. Stance classification is significant as it has many research applications like rumor stance classifications, stance classification towards public forums, claim stance classification, neural attention stance classification, online debate stance classification, dialogic properties stance classification etc. This research study explores different feature sets such as lexical, sentiment-specific, dialog-based which have been extracted using the standard datasets in the relevant area. Supervised learning approaches of generative algorithms such as Naïve Bayes and discriminative machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machine, Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree and k-Nearest Neighbor have been applied and then ensemble-based algorithms like Random Forest and AdaBoost have been applied. The empirical based results have been evaluated using the standard performance measures of Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F-measures.