Fake News Detection in Filipino

This repository contains data and models from our paper Localization of Fake News Detection via Multitask Transfer Learning (Cruz et al., 2020), published in the LREC 2020 Proceedings.

Datasets

• Fake News Filipino Dataset download huggingface
  Low-Resource Fake News Detection Corpora in Filipino
  The first of its kind. Contains 3,206 expertly-labeled news samples, half of which are real and half of which are fake.

Pretrained Models

All pretrained models used in the study are available in this repository.

Citation

If you found our work useful, please make sure to cite!

@inproceedings{cruz2020localization,
  title={Localization of Fake News Detection via Multitask Transfer Learning},
  author={Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise and Tan, Julianne Agatha and Cheng, Charibeth},
  booktitle={Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  pages={2596--2604},
  year={2020}
}

@article{evaluating2019cruz,
  title={{Evaluating Language Model Finetuning Techniques for Low-resource Languages}},
  author={Cruz, Jan Christian Blaise and Cheng, Charibeth},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.00409},
  year={2019}
}