Enhancing Rumor Detection Methods with Propagation Structure Infused Language Model (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Pretrained Language Models excel in various Natural Language Processing tasks, but performance on social media applications like rumor detection remains suboptimal. |
| Approach: | They propose a pretraining strategy to infuse information from propagation structures into pretrained language models to capture interactions of stance and sentiment crucial for rumor detection. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods on social media applications and significantly improves rumor detection performance. |
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