Comparing traditional machine learning methods for covid-19 fake news

Sattam Almatarneh, Pablo Gamallo, Bassam ALshargabi, Yazan AL-Khassawneh, Raed Alzubi

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Abstract

This article describes some supervised classification techniques for COVID-19 fake news detection in English, where the sources of data are annotated posts from various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. The main objective is to examine the performance of traditional machine learning techniques of COVID-19 fake news detection. In this situation, models trained with Support Vector Machine and Na¨ıve Bayes algorithms outperformed all other strategies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology, ACIT 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665419956
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology, ACIT 2021 - Muscat, Oman
Duration: 21 Dec 202123 Dec 2021

Publication series

Name2021 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology, ACIT 2021

Conference

Conference22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology, ACIT 2021
Country/TerritoryOman
CityMuscat
Period21/12/2123/12/21

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Fake news
  • Natural language processing
  • Supervised machine learning

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