Sanitization of septic news sentences through hybrid approach in English.

News articles play an important role in shaping public opinion and influencing decision-making. Sentences of standard news articles are often manipulated to favour a person, group, or political party or reflect a particular sentiment or agenda. It is challenging to define and filter or sanitize such...

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Published in:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 1865 - 1898
Main Authors: Das, Soma, Chatterji, Sanjay
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Published: Springer Nature Sep2025
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          https://ror.org/03c3jbs89 CSE, Indian Institute of Information Technology Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India
          https://ror.org/02decng19 CSE, Institute of Engineering & Management, 700091, Kolkata, India
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        Machine learning
        Paraphrase
        Text processing (Computer science)
        Fake news
        Information filtering
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          Machine learning
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        GPT
        News
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        Sentence transformer
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      ab: News articles play an important role in shaping public opinion and influencing decision-making. Sentences of standard news articles are often manipulated to favour a person, group, or political party or reflect a particular sentiment or agenda. It is challenging to define and filter or sanitize such news content before presenting it to readers. In our research, we focus on addressing some of the important issues of problematic English news sentences referred to as Septic sentences. With the aid of Machine Learning algorithms, we have successfully identified these sentences and their corresponding Septic phrases. We sanitize these Septic sentences by converting them into Pure sentences. In our paper, we demonstrate the sanitization process using a hybrid system, i.e., a rule-based approach followed by paraphrasing techniques. We evaluate our models using both syntactic and semantic similarity measured. We leverage the GPT - 3.5 and Parrot models in the direct paraphrasing approach. For Indirect paraphrasing, we use Google Translation API to translate the Septic English sentences into Spanish, German, and Tagalog, followed by back translation into English sentences. Additionally, we use the DeepL API to perform the same task through Spanish. Overall, DeepL model gives the highest accuracy throughout the metrics compared to the other Direct and Indirect methods.
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