readme.md

Albanian Fake News Corpus

Hello! Thank you for using our corpus!

In this repository you may find following informations :

• full_texts folder, which contains the full texts, as collected from their websites. Inside this folder, there are 2 more folders:

  • fake folder: it contains the collected fake news;
  • true folder: it contains the collected true news;
  • fake-meta-information folder: it contains the metadata information of each fake news;
  • true-meta-information folder: it contains the metadata information of each true news;
  • fake-pos folder: it contains the POS tagged fake news;
  • true-pos folder: it contains the POS tagged true news;

  The files in the fake and true metadata information folders follow the following model (line by line):

     date and time of publication
     facebook link
     web page link
     number of tokens
     number of words without punctuation
     number of words in upper case
     average word length
     number of characters
     number of letters in upper case
     number of verbs
     number of subjuntive 
     number of imperative verbs
     number of nouns
     number of adjectives
     number of adverbs
     number of pronouns
     number of modal verbs (mainly auxiliary verbs)
  

  To find the aligned true and fake news pairs is very simple, as they are equally numbered/named inside their folders.

Finally, this corpus was used in our work Albanian Fake News Detection which is published on The ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) and you may find it here.