Truthfulness judgments are a fundamental step in the process of fighting misinformation, as
they are crucial to train and evaluate classifiers that automatically distinguish true and false …

Misinformation is an ever increasing problem that is difficult to solve for the research
community and has a negative impact on the society at large. Very recently, the problem has …

Recently, the misinformation problem has been addressed with a crowdsourcing-based
approach: to assess the truthfulness of a statement, instead of relying on a few experts, a …

We present an ongoing collaboration between computer science researchers and fact-
checking experts in a broad-cast corporation to develop Watch'n'Check, a social media …

Analyzing statements of facts and claims in online discourse is subject of a multitude of
research areas. Methods from natural language processing and computational linguistics …

It is observed that previous credibility assessment studies missed some important concepts
of credibility. Their data was self-extracted and annotated only on the basis of basic human …

With the expanding fame of social media and electronic discussions, the dissemination of
phony news has become a significant danger to different areas and offices. This has …