Papers by Roney Santos
Measuring the Impact of Readability Features in Fake News Detection (2020.lrec-1)
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Roney Santos, Gabriela Pedro, Sidney Leal, Oto Vale, Thiago Pardo, Kalina Bontcheva, Carolina Scarton
| Challenge: | Recent efforts to detect fake news use language-based approaches to detect news articles . authors show that readability features can improve classification accuracy . |
| Approach: | They propose to use readability features to detect fake news in the Brazilian Portuguese language . they show that such features can achieve up to 92% classification accuracy . |
| Outcome: | The proposed features achieve up to 92% accuracy and may improve previous classification results. |
Puntuguese: A Corpus of Puns in Portuguese with Micro-edits (2024.lrec-main)
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Marcio Lima Inacio, Gabriela Wick-Pedro, Renata Ramisch, Luís Espírito Santo, Xiomara S. Q. Chacon, Roney Santos, Rogério Sousa, Rafael Anchiêta, Hugo Goncalo Oliveira
| Challenge: | Existing corpus of punning humor in Portuguese is unfit for machine learning due to data leakage. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Puntuguese to create a corpus of punning humor in Portuguese that is significantly more difficult to recognize than the previous corpus. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus achieves an F1-Score of 68.9% and is significantly more difficult than the previous corpus. |