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SUMMARY:Automatic News Verification
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DESCRIPTION:Panayiotis Smeros\nEDIC candidacy exam\nExam president: Prof. 
 Martin Jaggi\nThesis advisor: Prof. Karl Aberer\nCo-examiner: Prof. Robert
  West\n\nAbstract\nIn the new domain of data journalism\, there are many a
 pproaches that address the automatic verification of news and the assessme
 nt of their credibility. In this candidacy exam we will examine three of t
 hem\, namely:\n    - An approach that verifies statements using an exter
 nal ground-truth Knowledge Base [1]. More specifically\, the authors of th
 is paper propose a method that maps each claim (e.g.\, "Barack Obama is a 
 muslim”) to a graph extracted from DBpedia. The edges of this graph have
  a trust value which determines the trust value of the original claim.\n 
    - An approach that exploits information gathered manually by fact-che
 cking websites [2]. In this paper the authors propose a platform that coll
 ects proven fake and real news by websites like PolitiFact.com and FactC
 heck.org and monitors how they are distributed in social networks.\n   
  -An approach that utilizes content and social features in order to discov
 er fake multimedia (mostly images) which are distributed in social network
 s [3].\nAt the end\, we will briefly present our proposal which combines (
 among others) the three aforementioned approaches.\n\nBackground papers\nC
 omputational fact checking from knowledge networks\, Ciampaglia\, Giovanni
  Luca\, et al. PloS one 10.6 (2015): e0128193. \nHoaxy: A platform for tr
 acking online misinformation\, Shao\, Chengcheng\, et al. Proceedings of t
 he 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web. Internationa
 l World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee\, 2016.\nChallenges of com
 putational verification in social multimedia\, Boididou\, Christina\, et a
 l. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM
 \, 2014.\n 
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