The increasing occurrence, forms, and negative effects of misinformation on social media platforms has necessitated more misinformation detection tools. Currently, work is being done addressing COVID-19 misinformation however, there are no misinformation detection tools for any of the 40 distinct indigenous Ugandan languages. This paper addresses this gap by presenting basic language resources and a misinformation detection data set based on code-mixed Luganda-English messages sourced from the Facebook and Twitter social media platforms. Several machine learning methods are applied on the misinformation detection data set to develop classification models for detecting whether a code-mixed Luganda-English message contains misinformation or not. A 10-fold cross validation evaluation of the classification methods in an experimental misinformation detection task shows that a Discriminative Multinomial Naive Bayes (DMNB) method achieves the highest accuracy and F-measure of 78.19% and 77.90% respectively. Also, Support Vector Machine and Bagging ensemble classification models achieve comparable results. These results are promising since the machine learning models are based on n-gram features from only the misinformation detection dataset.
Data Augmentation With Back translation for Low Resource languages: A case of English and Luganda
Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Dept. of Information Technology（马拉拉大学科学与技术学院）；Handong Global University, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering（汉东全球大学计算机科学与电气工程学院）
Graph Neural Networks for Misinformation Detection: Performance-Efficiency Trade-offs
Warsaw University of Technology（华沙理工大学）；Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences（波兰科学院系统研究所）；AGH University of Krakow（AGH科技大学）；NASK National Research Institute（NASK国家研究所）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；Óbuda University（欧布达大学）；Khazar University（哈扎尔大学）
Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection
The University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）；Stevens Institute of Technology（史蒂文斯理工学院）；The Fin AI（Fin AI）；Columbia University（哥伦比亚大学）；Islamic University of Technology（伊斯兰科技大学）；Athens University of Economics and Business（雅典经济与商业大学）；Archimedes, Athena Research Center（阿基米德，亚特兰蒂斯研究中心）；MBZUAI；McGill University（麦吉尔大学）；Mila - Quebec AI Institute（魁北克人工智能研究所）；Dubai Police（迪拜警察）；University of Melbourne（墨尔本大学）；Halmstad University（哈姆斯塔德大学）；University of Florida（佛罗里达大学）；ELLIS Manchester（曼彻斯特ELLIS）
Echoes of Unrest: A Multimodal NLP Framework for Early Warning of Fake News and Violence-Driven Mob Activity
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dhaka International University（达卡国际大学计算机科学与工程系）；Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology（孟加拉国工程技术大学计算机科学与工程系）
No Rumours Please! A Multi-Indic-Lingual Approach for COVID Fake-Tweet Detection
Dept. of CSE IIT Kharagpur, India（印度 IIT 卡哈拉格普尔分校计算机科学与工程系）；Dept. of CSE IIIT Delhi, India（印度德里信息技术学院计算机科学与工程系）；IBM Research Bangalore, India（印度班加罗尔 IBM 研究院）
A Comparative Analysis of the COVID-19 Infodemic in English and Chinese: Insights from Social Media Textual Data
College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology（北京工业大学经济与管理学院）；Guilin University of Electronic Technology（桂林电子科技大学）；LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心图卢兹大学LAAS实验室）
Bridging the Domain Gap for Stance Detection for the Zulu language
Innopolis University（Innopolis大学）；Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence, Sorbonne University（索邦大学索邦人工智能中心）；IT University of Copenhagen（哥本哈根信息技术大学）
Unified Large Language Models for Misinformation Detection in Low-Resource Linguistic Settings
College of Science and Engineering（科学与工程学院）；Department of Computer Science（计算机科学系）；University of Hertfordshire（赫特福德郡大学）；Applied College, King Khalid University（国王·卡利德大学应用学院）；Faculty of Resilience（韧性学院）；Faculty of Computer Science（计算机科学系）
Towards Reliable Misinformation Mitigation: Generalization, Uncertainty, and GPT-4
McGill University（麦吉尔大学）；Mila（米拉研究所）；Université de Montréal（蒙特利尔大学）；Eindhoven University of Technology（埃因霍温理工大学）；University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学）；European University Institute（欧洲大学研究院）
ICPR 2024 Competition on Multilingual Claim-Span Identification
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur（印度理工学院卡拉格普尔分校）；Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, DRDO（国防研究与发展组织人工智能与机器人中心）；NSHM Institute of Computing & Analytics（NSHM计算与分析学院）
