Publikation
Ontological Modelling of Rumors
Thierry Declerck; Petya Osenova; Georgi Georgiev; Piroska Lendvai
In: Diana Trandabăţ; Daniela Gîfu. Linguistic Linked Open Data. Pages 3-17, ISBN 978-3-319-32941-3, Springer, 4/2016.
Zusammenfassung
In this paper, we present on-going work pursued in the context of the Pheme project. There, the detection of rumors in social media is playing a central role in two use cases. In order to be able to store and to query for information on specific types of rumors that can be circulated in such media (but also in “classical” media), we started to build ontological models of rumors, disputed claims, misinformation and veracity. As rumors can be considered as unverified statements, which after a certain time can be classified as either erroneous information or as facts, there is a need to model also the temporal information associated with any statement. As we are dealing in first line with social media, our modelling work should also cover information diffusion networks and user online behavior, which can also help in classifying a statement as a rumor or a fact. We focus in this paper on the core of our rumor ontology.