Over the last years, with the explosive growth of social media, huge amounts of rumors have been rapidly spread on the internet. Indeed, the proliferation of malicious misinformation and nasty rumors in social media can have harmful effects on individuals and society. In this paper, we investigate the content of the fake news in the Arabic world through the information posted on YouTube. Our contribution is threefold. First, we introduce a novel Arab corpus for the task of fake news analysis, covering the topics most concerned by rumors. We describe the corpus and the data collection process in detail. Second, we present several exploratory analysis on the harvested data in order to retrieve some useful knowledge about the transmission of rumors for the studied topics. Third, we test the possibility of discrimination between rumor and no rumor comments using three machine learning classifiers namely, Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT) and Multinomial Naïve Bayes (MNB).
Community Question Answering (cQA) are platforms where users can post their questions, expecting for other users to provide them with answers. We focus on the task of question retrieval in cQA which aims to retrieve previous questions that are similar to new queries. The past answers related to the similar questions can be therefore used to respond to the new queries. The major challenges in this task are the shortness of the questions and the word mismatch problem as users can formulate the same query using different wording. Although question retrieval has been widely studied over the years, it has received less attention in Arabic and still requires a non trivial endeavour. In this paper, we focus on this task both in Arabic and English. We propose to use word embeddings, which can capture semantic and syntactic information from contexts, to vectorize the questions. In order to get longer sequences, questions are expanded with words having close word vectors. The embedding vectors are fed into the Siamese LSTM model to consider the global context of questions. The similarity between the questions is measured using the Manhattan distance. Experiments on real world Yahoo! Answers dataset show the efficiency of the method in Arabic and English.
In this paper, we tackle the task of similar question retrieval (QR) which is essential for Commu-nity Question Answering (cQA) and aims to retrieve historical questions that are semantically equivalent to the new queries. Over time, with the sharp increase of community archives and the accumulation of duplicated questions, the QR problem has become increasingly challenging due to the shortness of the community questions as well as the word mismatch problem as users can formulate the same query using different wording. Although many efforts have been devoted to address this problem, existing methods mostly relied on supervised models which significantly depend on massive training data sets and manual feature engineering. Such methods are chiefly constrained by their specificities that ignore the word order and do not capture enough syntactic and semantic information in questions. In this paper, we rely on Neural Networks (NNs) which use a deep analysis of words and questions to take into consideration the semantics as well as the structure of questions to predict the semantic text similarity. We propose a deep learning approach based on a Siamese architecture with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, augmented with an attention mechanism to let the model give different words different attention while modeling questions. We also explore the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) nested within the Siamese architecture to retrieve relevant questions. Different similarity measures were tested to predict the semantic similarity between the the pairs of questions. To evaluate the proposed approach, we conducted experiments on large-scale datasets in English and Arabic.
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