Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Satirical News Detection via Language Model Differentiation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02164v1
• Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 18:46:36 GMT
• Title: Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Satirical News Detection via Language Model Differentiation
• Authors: Yigeng Zhang, Fan Yang, Yifan Zhang, Eduard Dragut and Arjun Mukherjee
• Abstract summary: In satirical news, the lexical and pragmatical attributes of the context are the key factors in amusing the readers. We propose a method that differentiates the satirical news and true news.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Satirical news is regularly shared in modern social media because it is entertaining with smartly embedded humor. However, it can be harmful to society because it can sometimes be mistaken as factual news, due to its deceptive character. We found that in satirical news, the lexical and pragmatical attributes of the context are the key factors in amusing the readers. In this work, we propose a method that differentiates the satirical news and true news. It takes advantage of satirical writing evidence by leveraging the difference between the prediction loss of two language models, one trained on true news and the other on satirical news, when given a new news article. We compute several statistical metrics of language model prediction loss as features, which are then used to conduct downstream classification. The proposed method is computationally effective because the language models capture the language usage differences between satirical news documents and traditional news documents, and are sensitive when applied to documents outside their domains.

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