Paper Info
Title
Improving Fake News Detection of Influential Domain via Domain- and Instance-Level Transfer.
Abstract
Social media spreads both real news and fake news in various domains including politics, health, entertainment, etc. It is crucial to automatically detect fake news, especially for news of influential domains like politics and health because they may lead to serious social impact, e.g., panic in the COVID-19 pandemic. Some studies indicate the correlation between domains and perform multi-domain fake news detection. However, these multi-domain methods suffer from a seesaw problem that the performance of some domains is often improved by hurting the performance of other domains, which could lead to an unsatisfying performance in the specific target domains. To address this issue, we propose a Domain- and Instance-level Transfer Framework for Fake News Detection (DITFEND), which could improve the performance of specific target domains. To transfer coarse-grained domain-level knowledge, we train a general model with data of all domains from the meta-learning perspective. To transfer fine-grained instance-level knowledge and adapt the general model to a target domain, a language model is trained on the target domain to evaluate the transferability of each data instance in source domains and re-weight the instance’s contribution. Experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of DITFEND. According to both offline and online experiments, the DITFEND shows superior effectiveness for fake news detection.
Year
Venue
DocType
2022
International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiong Nan100.34
Danding Wang2382.79
Yongchun Zhu310810.75
Qiang Sheng442.77
Yuhui Shi502.03
Juan Cao635530.20
Jintao Li701.69