SCRum-9: Multilingual Stance Classification over Rumours on Social Media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18916v2
• Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:42:02 GMT
• Title: SCRum-9: Multilingual Stance Classification over Rumours on Social Media
• Authors: Yue Li, Jake Vasilakes, Zhixue Zhao, Carolina Scarton,
• Abstract summary: SCRum-9 is the largest dataset for Rumour analysis in 9 languages, containing 7,516 tweets from X.<n>This paper innovates by exploring the use of multilingual synthetic data for stance classification.<n> SCRum-9 is publicly released to the research community with potential to foster further research on multilingual analysis of misleading narratives on social media.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce SCRum-9, the largest multilingual Stance Classification dataset for Rumour analysis in 9 languages, containing 7,516 tweets from X. SCRum-9 goes beyond existing stance classification datasets by covering more languages, linking examples to more fact-checked claims (2.1k), and including confidence-related annotations from multiple annotators to account for intra- and inter-annotator variability. Annotations were made by at least two native speakers per language, totalling more than 405 hours of annotation and 8,150 dollars in compensation. Further, SCRum-9 is used to benchmark five large language models (LLMs) and two multilingual masked language models (MLMs) in In-Context Learning (ICL) and fine-tuning setups. This paper also innovates by exploring the use of multilingual synthetic data for rumour stance classification, showing that even LLMs with weak ICL performance can produce valuable synthetic data for fine-tuning small MLMs, enabling them to achieve higher performance than zero-shot ICL in LLMs. Finally, we examine the relationship between model predictions and human uncertainty on ambiguous cases finding that model predictions often match the second-choice labels assigned by annotators, rather than diverging entirely from human judgments. SCRum-9 is publicly released to the research community with potential to foster further research on multilingual analysis of misleading narratives on social media.

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