Fake news detection

This task consists in classifying a given set of news written in Mexican Spanish between true and fake.  It is a binary classification task.

Publication
Mario Ezra Aragón, Horacio Jarquín-Vásquez, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Hugo Jair Escalante, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Helena Gómez-Adorno, Juan-Pablo Posadas-Durán, Gemma Bel-Enguix (2020) Overview of MEX-A3T at IberLEF 2020: Fake News and Aggressiveness Analysis in Mexican Spanish. Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2020)
Language
Spanish (Mexico)
NLP topic
fake news detection
Abstract task
Classification
Dataset
Spanish Fake News Corpus
Year
2020
Publication link
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2664/m…
Ranking metric
Macro F1

Task results

System MacroF1
Idiap-UAM-1 0.8566
Idiap-UAM-2 0.8502
Ares 0.8169
CIMAT-1 0.8030
Intensos-2 0.7793

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