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Rumor detection method based on burst topic detection and domain expert discovery
YANG Wentai, LIANG Gang, XIE Kai, YANG Jin, XU Chun
Journal of Computer Applications    2017, 37 (10): 2799-2805.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2017.10.2799
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It is difficult for existing rumor detection methods to overcome the disadvantage of data collection and detection delay. To resolve this problem, a rumor detection method based on burst topic detection inspired by the momentum model and domain expert discovery was proposed. The dynamics theory in physics was introduced to model the topic features spreading among the Weibo platform, and dynamic physical quantities of the topic features were used to describe the burst characteristics and tendency of topic development. Then, emergent topics were extracted after feature clustering. Next, according to the domain relativity between the topic and the expert, domain experts for each emergent topic were selected within experts pool, which is responsible for identifying the credibility of the emergent topic. The experimental results show that the proposed method gets 13 percentage points improvement on accuracy comparing with the Weibo rumor identification method based merely on supervised machine learning, and the detection time is reduced to 20 hours compared with dominating manual methods, which means that the proposed method is applicable for real rumor detection situation.
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