Why do urban legends go viral?

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• Urban legends are viral deceptive texts, in between credible and incredible.

• To be credible they mimic news articles while being incredible like a fairy tale.

• High level features: “who/where/when” of news, “emotional/readable” of fairy tales.

• Quantitative analysis and machine learning experiments for recognizing urban legends.

摘要

•Urban legends are viral deceptive texts, in between credible and incredible.•To be credible they mimic news articles while being incredible like a fairy tale.•High level features: “who/where/when” of news, “emotional/readable” of fairy tales.•Quantitative analysis and machine learning experiments for recognizing urban legends.

论文关键词：Persuasive natural language processing,Emotions in texts

论文评审过程：Received 12 May 2014, Revised 12 February 2015, Accepted 5 May 2015, Available online 8 June 2015, Version of Record 10 December 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2015.05.003