What goes on inside rumour and non-rumour tweets and their reactions: A psycholinguistic analyses

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Highlights:

• Difference in psycho-linguistic characteristics between rumour and non-rumour source tweets.

• Psycho-linguistic features to differentiate between the reactions that rumour and non-rumour tweets attract.

• Contribution of psycho-linguistic features vary from event to event.

• Psycho-linguistic features for classifying rumour and non-rumour tweets using Machine Learning models.

• Psycho-linguistic features analyses using statistical metrics and SHAP plots.

摘要

•Difference in psycho-linguistic characteristics between rumour and non-rumour source tweets.•Psycho-linguistic features to differentiate between the reactions that rumour and non-rumour tweets attract.•Contribution of psycho-linguistic features vary from event to event.•Psycho-linguistic features for classifying rumour and non-rumour tweets using Machine Learning models.•Psycho-linguistic features analyses using statistical metrics and SHAP plots.

论文关键词:Rumour detection,Psycho-linguistic analyses,Explainable AI

论文评审过程:Received 29 November 2021, Revised 1 April 2022, Accepted 3 June 2022, Available online 8 June 2022, Version of Record 18 June 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107345