Classification aware neural topic model for COVID-19 disinformation categorisation
26 de Abril de 2024

The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses worldwide. Not only is disinformation creating confusion about medical science amongst citizens, but it is also amplifying distrust in policy makers and governments. To help tackle this, we developed computational methods to categorise COVID-19 disinformation. The COVID-19 disinformation categories could be used for a) focusing fact-checking efforts on the most damaging kinds of COVID-19 disinformation; b) guiding policy makers who are trying to deliver effective public health messages and counter effectively COVID-19 disinformation. This paper presents: 1) a corpus containing what is currently the largest available set of manually annotated COVID-19 disinformation categories; 2) a classification-aware neural topic model (CANTM) designed for COVID-19 disinformation category classification and topic discovery; 3) an extensive analysis of COVID-19 disinformation categories with respect to time, volume, false type, media type and origin source.

Titulo em português
Plataforma
GitHub
Tipos de dataset
Tabular
Formato do Dataset
Filtrados
Repositório
Autores
Xingyi Song (None), Johann Petrak (None), Ye Jiang (None), Iknoor Singh (None), Diana Maynard (None), Kalina Bontcheva (None)
Tipo de coleta
Scripting
Ferramenta e Método de Coleta
Início da coleta
Final da coleta
Procedimento de Reidratação
Classificação do Dataset
Ciências da Saúde Medicina
Palavras-chave
COVID-19, Desinformação, Desinfodemia, DataSet
Data de criação
26 de Abril de 2024
Organizações Financiadoras
ABNT
Maynard, D., Singh, I., Petrak, J., Bontcheva, K., Song, X., Jiang, Y. Classification aware neural topic model for COVID-19 disinformation categorisation. Disponível em: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247086. Acesso em 03/05/2025
APA
Maynard, D., Singh, I., Petrak, J., Bontcheva, K., Song, X., Jiang, Y. (???). Classification aware neural topic model for COVID-19 disinformation categorisation.