Challenge: rumor detection models have been designed with oversimplifcation and evaluated inappropriately on a few datasets where the actual early-stage information is largely missing.
Approach: They propose a new Benchmark dataset for EArly Rumor Detection based on claims from fact-checking websites and a novel model based upon neural Hawkes process for EARD.
Outcome: The proposed model can guide a generic rumor detection model to make timely, accurate and stable predictions.

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Challenge: Existing methods for early rumor detection on social media platforms are limited, incomplete and noisy.
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Challenge: Existing rumor detection methods provide detection labels while ignoring their explanation.
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Challenge: Current rumor detection benchmarks use random splits as training, development and test sets which results in topical overlaps.
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Challenge: Existing methods to rumor detection ignored dynamical evolution of an event and failed to capture its unique features in different states.
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Challenge: Existing models for rumor detection ignore the conversation structure of tweets . 68% of american adults occasionally read news on social media platforms . however, the credibility of news propagated through social media is questionable due to the lack of editors who can validate it.
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