MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach
Sharal Coelho, Asha Hegde, Kavya G, Hosahalli Lakshmaiah Shashirekha
Abstract
Social media is widely used to spread fake news, which affects a larger population. So it is considered as a very important task to detect fake news spread on social media platforms. To address the challenges in the identification of fake news in the Malayalam language, in this paper, we - team MUCS, describe the Machine Learning (ML) models submitted to “Fake News Detection in Dravidian Languages” at DravidianLangTech@RANLP 2023 shared task. Three different models, namely, Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB), Logistic Regression (LR), and Ensemble model (MNB, LR, and SVM) are trained using Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) of word unigrams. Among the three models ensemble model performed better with a macro F1-score of 0.83 and placed 3rd rank in the shared task.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.dravidianlangtech-1.42
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Varna, Bulgaria
- Editors:
- Bharathi R. Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Anand Kumar M, Sajeetha Thavareesan, Elizabeth Sherly
- Venues:
- DravidianLangTech | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
- Note:
- Pages:
- 288–292
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2023.dravidianlangtech-1.42
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Sharal Coelho, Asha Hegde, Kavya G, and Hosahalli Lakshmaiah Shashirekha. 2023. MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pages 288–292, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
- Cite (Informal):
- MUCS@DravidianLangTech2023: Malayalam Fake News Detection Using Machine Learning Approach (Coelho et al., DravidianLangTech-WS 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2023.dravidianlangtech-1.42.pdf