The Fake News Vaccine

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Effort-driven Fact Checking

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The Web constitutes a valuable source of information. In recent years, it fostered the construction of large-scale knowledge bases, such as Freebase, YAGO, and DBpedia, each storing millions of facts about society in general, and specific domains, such as ...

2019

Automatic Online Fake News Detection Combining Content and Social Signals

Stefano Moret, Gabriele Ballarin

The proliferation and rapid diffusion of fake news on the Internet highlight the need of automatic hoax detection systems. In the context of social networks, machine learning (ML) methods can be used for this purpose. Fake news detection strategies are tra ...

IEEE2018

Probing the Limits of Social Data : Biases, Methods, and Domain Knowledge

Alexandra Olteanu

Online social data has been hailed to provide unprecedented insights into human phenomena due to its ability to capture human behavior at a scale and level of detail, both in breadth and depth, that is hard to achieve through conventional data collection t ...

EPFL2016

Reconstructing Curvilinear Networks using Path Classifiers and Integer Programming

Pascal Fua, Engin Türetken, Fethallah Benmansour, Przemyslaw Rafal Glowacki

We propose a novel Bayesian approach to automated delineation of curvilinear structures that form complex and potentially loopy networks. By representing the image data as a graph of potential paths, we first show how to weight these paths using discrimina ...

2016

Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change

Karl Aberer, Alexandra Olteanu, Carlos Castillo

Social media is becoming more and more integrated in the distribution and consumption of news. How is news in social media different from mainstream news? % This paper presents a comparative analysis covering a span of 17 months and hundreds of news events ...

2015

Mapping the Early Modern News Flow: An Enquiry by Robust Text Reuse Detection

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza

Early modern printed gazettes relied on a system of news exchange and text reuse largely based on handwritten sources. The reconstruction of this information exchange system is possible by detecting reused texts. We present a method to individuate text bor ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Combine and Conquer : Mining Social Systems for Prediction

Vincent Etter

In this thesis, we explore the application of data mining and machine learning techniques to several practical problems. These problems have roots in various fields such as social science, economics, and political science. We show that computer science tec ...

EPFL2015

Secure and Private Proofs for Location-Based Activity Summaries in Urban Areas

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Igor Bilogrevic, Thi Van Anh Pham

Activity-based social networks, where people upload and share information about their location-based activities (e.g., the routes of their activities), are increasingly popular. Such systems, however, raise privacy and security issues: the service provider ...

2014

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