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As misinformation continues to spread rapidly on social media platforms identifying and stopping the dissemination of fake news has become an urgent need. In this article, we propose a deep learning approach leveraging keywords for feature extraction and classification of Arabic dialect fake news. Our method achieves an accuracy of 82.3% on a corpus comprising 3000 news articles in Algerian and Tunisian dialects, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), French, and English, featuring instances of code-switching between these languages; as well as an accuracy of 93.7% on an English fake news corpus. Our experimentation shows that the shortcut learning problem that can arise when using keyword based features can be solved using regularization techniques. Our findings also show that our approach will achieve better performance on larger Arabic dialect corpora.
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Hocini, A., Smaili, K. (2025). Detecting Fake News: Exploring Key Features in Multilingual Arabic Dialect Corpus. In: Hdioud, B., Aouragh, S.L. (eds) Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice. ICALP 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2340. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80438-0_18
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