ClaimPortal: Integrated Monitoring, Searching, Checking, and Analytics of Factual Claims on Twitter (P19-3)
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Sarthak Majithia, Fatma Arslan, Sumeet Lubal, Damian Jimenez, Priyank Arora, Josue Caraballo, Chengkai Li
| Challenge: | ClaimPortal is a web-based platform for monitoring, searching, checking and analyzing factual claims on Twitter from the American political domain. |
| Approach: | They present a web-based platform for monitoring, searching, checking and analyzing English factual claims on Twitter from the American political domain. |
| Outcome: | The proposed platform can monitor, search, check, and analyze English factual claims on Twitter from the political domain. |
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