ClaimPortal: Integrated Monitoring, Searching, Checking, and Analytics of Factual Claims on Twitter
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The document discusses the challenges of fact-checking on social media, highlighting the limitations of labor, resources, and data volume. It introduces 'claimportal', a system designed to assist users in monitoring and analyzing factual claims on Twitter, featuring customizable search options and visualizations. The claimportal also classifies tweets based on factual claim types using advanced frame detection and mapping techniques.
ClaimPortal: Integrated Monitoring, Searching, Checking, and Analytics of Factual Claims on Twitter
- 1. Sarthak Majithia, Fatma Arslan, Sumeet Lubal, Damian Jimenez, Priyank Arora, Josue Caraballo, Chengkai Li The University of Texas at Arlington § The problem of unchecked claims is exacerbated on social media. § Fact-‐checking every social media post is not possible due to: § laborious and intellectually demanding process § limited resources § sheer volumeofdata ClaimPortal: Integrated Monitoring, Searching, Checking, and Analytics of Factual Claims on Twitter § Assist users to sift through factual claims in tweets. § Allows users to customize their search with a variety of filtering conditions: § Keywords, dates, twitter handles, hashtags, user mentions, claim types, and check-‐worthiness score. § Provides simplebutintuitiveanalytics and visualizations. § Presents similar fact-‐checks for a user-‐selected tweet. ClaimPortal GUI Motivation What does ClaimPortal do? ClaimPortal System Architecture ClaimPortal main web page Similar fact-‐checks for the highlighted tweet on the main web page Visualizations on the analytics page Funding Claim Type Detection Task: Classifying tweets based on the types of factual claims they promote. § Employed a sub-‐collection of FrameNet frames. § Created several new factual-‐claims related frames. § Adopted ACE event types as claim types. § Utilized the study of mapping frames to event types (Spiliopoulou et al., 2017). § Introduced four new event types with their mapped frames. § Used open-‐sesame for frame detection. System https://idir.uta.edu /claimportal/