Profiling fake news spreaders

The focus of this  task is on determining whether or not the author of a Twitter feed is keen to spread hate speech. It is a binary classification task.

Publication
Rangel, F.; Giachanou, A.; Ghanem, BHH.; Rosso, P. (2020). Overview of the 8th Author Profiling Task at PAN 2020: Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 2696:1-18.
Competition
8th Author Profiling Task at PAN 2020: Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter
Language
Spanish
English
NLP topic
fake news detection
Abstract task
Classification
Year
2020
Publication link
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2696/p…
Ranking metric
Accuracy

Task results

System Accuracy
pizarro20 0.8200
bolonyai20 0.8050
majumder20 0.8000
koloski20 0.7950
vogel20 0.7850

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