International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
ISSN: 2249-8958 (Online), Volume-9 Issue-2, December, 2019
3291
Published By:
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering
& Sciences Publication
Retrieval Number: B3465129219/2019©BEIESP
DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.B3465.129219
Journal Website: www.ijeat.org
Abstract: Efficient utilization of social networking sites (SNS)
had reduced communication delays, at the same time increased
rumour messages. Subsequently, mischievous people started
sharing of rumours via social networking sites for gaining
personal benefits. This falsified information (i.e., rumour) creates
misconception among the people of society influencing
socio-economic losses by disrupting the routine businesses of
private and government sectors. Communication of rumour
information requires rigorous surveillance, before they become
viral through social media platforms. Detecting these rumour
words in an early stage from messaging applications needs to be
predicted using robust Rumour Detection Models (RDM) and
succinct tools. RDM are effectively used in detecting the rumours
from social media platforms (Twitter, Linkedln, Instagram,
WhatsApp, Weibo sena and others) with the help of bag of words
and machine learning approaches to a limited extent. RDM fails
in detecting the emerging rumours that contains linguistic words
of a specific language during the chatting session. This survey
compares the various RDM strategies and Tools that were
proposed earlier for identifying the rumour words in social media
platforms. It is found that many of earlier RDM make use of Deep
learning approaches, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence,
Fuzzy logic technique, Graph theory and Data mining techniques.
Finally, an improved RDM model is proposed in Figure 2,
efficiency of this proposed RDM models is improved by embedding
of Pre-defined rumour rules, WordNet Ontology and
NLP/machine learning approach giving the precision rate of
83.33% when compared with other state-of-art systems.
Keywords : Social Networking Sites (SNS), Rumour Detection
models (RDM), Pre-defined rules, WordNet Ontology.
I. INTRODUCTION
With the use of Social media platforms there is a
tremendous increase in spreading of rumours on various
topics and domains. Now-a-days, these social messaging
applications are excessively used in promoting of events,
Advertisements, New’s channels, sharing of market data and
business transactions. Sometimes, these microblogs
communicate the false information which leads to
misunderstanding among the group of people creating mental
tensions in the society. Surveillance of falsified information
Revised Manuscript Received on December 30, 2019.
* Correspondence Author
Mohammed Mahmood Ali*, CSE department, Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India. Email: mahmoodedu@gmail.com
Mohammed S. Qaseem, CSE department, Nawab Shah alam college of
engineering, JNTUH, Hyderabad, India. Email: ms_qaseem@yahoo.com
Ateeq ur rahman, CSE department, Shadan College of Engineering and
Technology, JNTUH, Hyderabad, India. Email: mail_to_ateeq@yahoo.com
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(i.e., rumour) needs to be strictly monitored by e-crime cell.
The e-crime cell is authorized to take stringent action against
those culprits for sending rumours through SNS. Sending of
deceitful and false information named as “rumour”, which is
one of the serious cybercrimes as per the FISA Act [4].
Spreading of rumours through Websites and Social media
platforms, mobile phones, laptops and vice versa may
encounter various problems in the society that hinders the
development by creating mental tensions among the people
[5]. Specifically, many of the electronic rumours spread
through mobile messaging applications is very difficult to
catch at the initial stages unless it is notified by the users, and
these short posts exists for short life span at the server.
Similarly, microblogs communicated or shared via various
interchangeable social media platform to other social
mediums (i.e., WhatsApp to Facebook, Google+ to
Instagram, Instagram to WhatsApp, youtube to WhatsApp,
Facebook to WhatsApp and vice versa) differs in their
messaging architecture and privacy restrictions of storing and
retrieving policies that makes it difficult to identify the
rumour words when they are encountered in microblogs [6].
Radio agencies and News channels also plays a vital role in
sending of rumours through audio, video or conference
communication, which becomes impossible to analyze and
stop their transmissions at run-time, such contents once
viewed in mobile phones are automatically auto-saved in the
memory and hence, are transmitted to others at later point of
time. Spying of such rumour voice communications and
video recordings is still a research issue that requires rigorous
surveillance at various instance of timestamps. Every post
may not be a rumour, identifying factual microblogs from set
of cluster of posts that are sent through social media is
predicted using ranking algorithm from various enquiry
patterns [7]. Twitter messaging application which is widely
used by millions of people for posting, giving reply to
specific tweets, forwarding of tweet to other users adversely
influence on Health domains by creating mental tension in
the society. To overcome, health domain problems from
Twitter, few parameters are picked for evaluation such as
statistics of users, sentiments of specific tweets, followers of
root of tweet along with URLs and fed to classifiers for
finding the rumours [3]. A new classification algorithm was
proposed using statistical metrics for segregation of rumour
and non-rumour twitter posts based on users frequency of
interaction, structure & network establishment, temporary
connectivity and linguistic features. It is concluded that
linguistic features evolved to be on top-priority with good
accuracy rate in classification of rumours and non-rumours
for tweets that vary for long duration [10].
Rumour Detection Models & Tools for Social
Networking Sites
Mohammed Mahmood Ali, Mohammad S. Qaseem, Ateeq ur Rahman