2024/06/14 by Tim Menzner, Menzner, Tim, Jochen L. Leidner +1
Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Misinformation and Its Impacts #Topic Modeling #Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.09938
The World Wide Web provides unrivalled access to information globally, including factual news reporting and commentary. However, state actors and commercial players increasingly spread biased (distorted) or fake (non-factual) information to promote their agendas. We compare several large, pre-trained language models on the task of sentence-level news bias detection and sub-type classification, providing quantitative and qualitative results.