Model Generalization on COVID-19 Fake News Detection*

This is the implementation of the paper: Model Generalization on COVID-19 Fake News Detection. Ye Jin Bang*, Etsuko Ishii*, Samuel Cahyawijaya*, Ziwei Ji*, Pascale Fung ***AAAI2021-CONSTRAINT Workshop *** [PDF]

Citation:

If you find this paper and code useful, please cite our paper:

@article{bang2021model,
  title={Model Generalization on COVID-19 Fake News Detection},
  author={Bang, Ye Jin and Ishii, Etsuko and Cahyawijaya, Samuel and Ji, Ziwei and Fung, Pascale Ngan},
  journal={Communications in Computer and Information Science},
  year={2021}
}

Data:

The dataset used in the paper is from two different papers regarding COVID-19 fake news. We are sharing it so you can duplicate our result with same data splits (valid/test).

1. Fake-News COVID-19 (FakeNews-19) : COVID-19 fake-news detection task proposed at CONSTRAINT 2021 (Website: https://constraint-shared-task-2021.github.io/)

2. Tweets COVID-19 (Tweets-19) : From a paper [PDF] (released for fighting for the COVID-19 Infodemic tweets.