Linguistic Predictors of Rumor Veracity on the Internet

This paper attempts to investigate the role of language in predicting the veracity of rumors on the Internet. Specifically, it seeks to examine rumor veracity as a function of six groups of linguistic predictors. These include rumors' (1) comprehensibility, (2) sentiment, (3) time-orientation,...

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Main Authors: Banerjee, Snehasish, Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Conference Paper
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85826
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43864
http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2016/IMECS2016_pp387-391.pdf