Orestis Papakyriakopoulos


2020

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NLP-based Feature Extraction for the Detection of COVID-19 Misinformation Videos on YouTube
Juan Carlos Medina Serrano | Orestis Papakyriakopoulos | Simon Hegelich
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020

We present a simple NLP methodology for detecting COVID-19 misinformation videos on YouTube by leveraging user comments. We use transfer learning pre-trained models to generate a multi-label classifier that can categorize conspiratorial content. We use the percentage of misinformation comments on each video as a new feature for video classification.