“…In summary, we are dealing with a task of detection and classification of texts that use verbal deception. This field, although currently a hot topic [11,1,5], is quite new which makes it difficult to compare our contributions against others concerned with the detection of false or deceptive texts [40,19,21,59]. These works, that are mostly centered on the domain of spam detection and fake reviews [43,32,22,47], make use of traditional ML techniques such as Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), logistic regression or decision trees [8,25].…”