Finding common features in multilingual fake news: a quantitative clustering approach.

Since the Internet is a breeding ground for unconfirmed fake news, its automatic detection and clustering studies have become crucial. Most current studies focus on English texts, and the common features of multilingual fake news are not sufficiently studied. Therefore, this article uses English, Ru...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 790 - 805
Autores principales: Yuan, Wei, Liu, Haitao
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2024
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          School of International Relations, National University of Defense Technology , Nanjing, 210039, China
          Institute of Quantitative Linguistics, Beijing Language and Culture University , Beijing, 100083, China
          Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies , Guangzhou, 510420, China
          Department of Linguistics, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou, 310058, China
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        Fake news
        Principal components analysis
        K-means clustering
        Hierarchical clustering (Cluster analysis)
        Self-expression
        Fuzzy clustering technique
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        Chinese
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        fake news
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      ab: Since the Internet is a breeding ground for unconfirmed fake news, its automatic detection and clustering studies have become crucial. Most current studies focus on English texts, and the common features of multilingual fake news are not sufficiently studied. Therefore, this article uses English, Russian, and Chinese as examples and focuses on identifying the common quantitative features of fake news in different languages at the word, sentence, readability, and sentiment levels. These features are then utilized in principal component analysis, K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, and two-step clustering experiments, which achieved satisfactory results. The common features we proposed play a greater role in achieving automatic cross-lingual clustering than the features proposed in previous studies. Simultaneously, we discovered a trend toward linguistic simplification and economy in fake news. Furthermore, fake news is easier to understand and uses negative emotional expressions in ways that real news does not. Our research provides new reference features for fake news detection tasks and facilitates research into their linguistic characteristics.
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