Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification

Zien Sheikh Ali, Watheq Mansour, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Tamer Elsayed, Abdulaziz Al-Ali

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Abstract

Over the past years, notable progress has been made towards fighting misinformation spread over social media, encouraging the development of many fact-checking systems. However, systems that operate over Arabic content are scarce. In this work, we bridge this gap by proposing Tahaqqaq (Verify), an Arabic real-time system that helps users verify claims over Twitter with several functionalities, such as identifying check-worthy claims, estimating credibility of users in terms of spreading fake news, and finding authoritative accounts. Tahaqqaq has a friendly online Web interface that supports various real-time user scenarios. In the same breath, we enable public access to Tahaqqaq services through a handy RESTful API. Finally, in terms of performance, multiple components of Tahaqqaq outperform the state-of-the-art models on Arabic datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages3170-3174
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394086
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 23 Jul 202327 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2023 - Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period23/07/2327/07/23

Keywords

  • Fact-checking
  • Fake news detection
  • Misinformation
  • Rumors
  • Social media
  • User interface

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