Beyond Detection: A Defend-and-Summarize Strategy for Robust and Interpretable Rumor Analysis on Social Media (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing detection models for rumors detection are poor interpretability and lack the textual content to detect rumors. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that analyzes the textual content and propagation paths of rumors on social media and provides multi-perspective prediction explanations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework defends against malicious attacks and provides prediction explanations on three public datasets. |
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