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From Anomaly Detection to Rumour Detection using Data Streams of Social Platforms

Nguyen Thanh Tam  
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Weidlich, Matthias
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Zheng, Bolong
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May 1, 2019
Proceedings Of The Vldb Endowment

Social platforms became a major source of rumours. While rumours can have severe real-world implications, their detection is notoriously hard: Content on social platforms is short and lacks semantics; it spreads quickly through a dynamically evolving network; and without considering the context of content, it may be impossible to arrive at a truthful interpretation. Traditional approaches to rumour detection, however, exploit solely a single content modality, e.g., social media posts, which limits their detection accuracy. In this paper, we cope with the aforementioned challenges by means of a multi-modal approach to rumour detection that identifies anomalies in both, the entities (e.g., users, posts, and hashtags) of a social platform and their relations. Based on local anomalies, we show how to detect rumours at the network level, following a graph-based scan approach. In addition, we propose incremental methods, which enable us to detect rumours using streaming data of social platforms. We illustrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach with a real-world dataset of 4M tweets with more than 1000 rumours.

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research article
DOI
10.14778/3329772.3329778
Web of Science ID

WOS:000497520700006

Author(s)
Nguyen Thanh Tam  
Weidlich, Matthias
Zheng, Bolong
Yin, Hongzhi
Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung  
Stantic, Bela
Date Issued

2019-05-01

Publisher

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY

Published in
Proceedings Of The Vldb Endowment
Volume

12

Issue

9

Start page

1016

End page

1029

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Computer Science

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computer intrusion

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scan

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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December 4, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/163540
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