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Overview of the Shared Task on Fake News Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021

arXiv · Jul 11

This paper provides an overview of the UrduFake@FIRE2021 shared task, which focused on fake news detection in the Urdu language. The task involved binary classification of news articles into real or fake categories using a dataset of 1300 training and 300 testing articles across five domains. 34 teams registered, with 18 submitting results and 11 providing technical reports detailing various approaches from BoW to Transformer models, with the best system achieving an F1-macro score of 0.679.

UrduFake@FIRE2021: Shared Track on Fake News Identification in Urdu

arXiv · Jul 11

The UrduFake@FIRE2021 shared task focused on fake news detection in the Urdu language, framed as a binary classification problem. 34 teams registered, with 18 submitting results and 11 providing technical reports, showcasing diverse approaches. The top-performing system utilized the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm, achieving an F-score of 0.679.