Measuring fact check-ability in microblogs

Abstract

This paper presents the methodology employed by the author for IRMiDis Track in FIRE 2018. The task comprised of two sub-tasks, first, classifying whether a tweet is fact check-able or not and second, to identify the news article that would support or verify the tweet. Two runs were submitted for the first subtask only. © 2018 CEUR-WS. All Rights Reserved.