Cross-SEAN: A cross-stitch semi-supervised neural attention model for COVID-19 fake news detection

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William Scott Paka, Rachit Bansal, Abhay Kaushik, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Published: 2021, Last Modified: 19 Apr 2024Appl. Soft Comput. 2021EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•CTF, a labelled COVID-19 misinformation dataset.•Cross-SEAN, a new model to curb COVID-19 fake news on Twitter. It is one of the few semi-supervised models introduced for the task of fake news detection.•Detailed analysis of the dataset to unfold the underlying patterns of the COVID-19 related fake tweets.•Chrome-SEAN, a real-world tool (chrome extension) to flag COVID-19 fake news on Twitter.