Augmented dataset of rumours and non-rumours for rumour detection
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Abstract
This data set contains a collection of Twitter rumours and non-rumours during six real-world events: 1) 2013 Boston marathon bombings, 2) 2014 Ottawa shooting, 3) 2014 Sydney siege, 4) 2015 Charlie Hebdo Attack, 5) 2014 Ferguson unrest, and 6) 2015 Germanwings plane crash The data set is an augmented data set of the PHEME dataset of rumours and non-rumours based on two data sets: the PHEME data [2] (downloaded via https://figshare.com/articles/PHEME_dataset_for_Rumour_Detection_and_Veracity_Classification/6392078), and the CrisisLexT26 data [3] (downloaded via https://github.com/sajao/CrisisLex/tree/master/data/CrisisLexT26/2013_Boston_bombings). PHEME-Aug v2.0 (aug-rnr-data_filtered.tar.bz2 and aur-rnr-data_full.tar.bz2) contains augmented data for all six events. aug-rnr-data_full.tar.bz2 contains source tweets and replies without temporal filtering. Please refer to [1] for details about temporal filtering. The statistics are as follows: * 2013 Boston marathon bombings: 392 rumours and 784 non-rumours * 2014 Ottawa shooting: 1,047 rumours and 2,072 non-rumours * 2014 Sydney siege: 1,764 rumours and 3,530 non-rumours * 2015 Charlie Hebdo Attack: 1,225 rumours and 2,450 non-rumours * 2014 Ferguson unrest: 737 rumours and 1,476 non-rumours * 2015 Germanwings plane crash: 502 rumours and 604 non-rumours aug-rnr-data_filtered.tar.bz2 contains source tweets, replies, and retweets after temporal filtering and deduplication. Please refer to [1] for details. The statistics are as follows: * 2013 Boston marathon bombings: 323 rumours and 645 non-rumours * 2014 Ottawa shooting: 713 rumours and 1,420 non-rumours * 2014 Sydney siege: 1,134 rumours and 2,262 non-rumours * 2015 Charlie Hebdo Attack: 812 rumours and 1,673 non-rumours * 2014 Ferguson unrest: 471 rumours and 949 non-rumours * 2015 Germanwings plane crash: 375 rumours and 402 non-rumours The data structure follows the format of the PHEME data [2]. Each event has a directory, with two subfolders, rumours and non-rumours. These two folders have folders named with a tweet ID. The tweet itself can be found on the 'source-tweet' directory of the tweet in question, and the directory 'reactions' has the set of tweets responding to that source tweet. Also each folder contains ‘aug_complete.csv’ and ‘reference.csv'. 'aug_complete.csv' file contains the metadata (tweet ID, tweet text, timestamp, and rumour label) of augmented tweets before deduplication and filtering tweets without context (i.e., replies). 'reference.csv' file contains manually annotated reference tweets [2, 3]. If you use our augmented data (PHEME-Aug v2.0), please also cite: [1] Han S., Gao, J., Ciravegna, F. (2019). "Neural Language Model Based Training Data Augmentation for Weakly Supervised Early Rumor Detection", The 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2019), Vancouver, Canada, 27-30 August, 2019 ============================================================================================== [2] Kochkina, E., Liakata, M., & Zubiaga, A. (2018). All-in-one: Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification. COLING. [3] Olteanu, A., Vieweg, S., & Castillo, C. (2015, February). What to expect when the unexpected happens: Social media communications across crises. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work & social computing (pp. 994-1009). ACM
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".