@inproceedings{gowda-hegde-2025-yencs,
    title = "{Y}en{CS}@{D}ravidian{L}ang{T}ech 2025: Integrating Hybrid Architectures for Fake News Detection in Low-Resource {D}ravidian Languages",
    author = "Gowda, Anusha M D  and
      Hegde, Parameshwar R",
    editor = "Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Priyadharshini, Ruba  and
      Madasamy, Anand Kumar  and
      Thavareesan, Sajeetha  and
      Sherly, Elizabeth  and
      Rajiakodi, Saranya  and
      Palani, Balasubramanian  and
      Subramanian, Malliga  and
      Cn, Subalalitha  and
      Chinnappa, Dhivya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Acoma, The Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/moar-dois/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.19/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.dravidianlangtech-1.19",
    pages = "109--113",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-228-2",
    abstract = "Detecting fake news in under-resourced Dravidian languages is a rigorous task due to the scarcity of annotated datasets and the intricate nature of code-mixed text. This study tackles these issues by employing advanced machine learning techniques for two key classification tasks, the first task involves binary classification achieving a macro-average F1-score of 0.792 using a hybrid fusion model that integrates Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network (Bi-RNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with weighted averaging. The second task focuses on fine-grained classification, categorizing news where an LSTM-GRU hybrid model attained a macro-average F1-score of 0.26. These findings highlight the effectiveness of hybrid models in improving fake news detection for under-resourced languages. Additionally, this study provides a foundational framework that can be adapted to address similar challenges in other under-resourced languages, emphasizing the need for further research in this area."
}