Demystifying Neural Fake News via Linguistic Feature-Based Interpretation

Ankit Aich, Souvik Bhattacharya, Natalie Parde


Abstract
The spread of fake news can have devastating ramifications, and recent advancements to neural fake news generators have made it challenging to understand how misinformation generated by these models may best be confronted. We conduct a feature-based study to gain an interpretative understanding of the linguistic attributes that neural fake news generators may most successfully exploit. When comparing models trained on subsets of our features and confronting the models with increasingly advanced neural fake news, we find that stylistic features may be the most robust. We discuss our findings, subsequent analyses, and broader implications in the pages within.
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2022.coling-1.573
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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International Committee on Computational Linguistics
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6586–6599
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Ankit Aich, Souvik Bhattacharya, and Natalie Parde. 2022. Demystifying Neural Fake News via Linguistic Feature-Based Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 6586–6599, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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