The dataset which was used in the detector was Liar

LIAR is a publicly available dataset for fake news detection. A decade-long of 12.8K manually labeled short statements were collected in various contexts from POLITIFACT.COM, which provides detailed analysis report and links to source documents for each case. This dataset can be used for fact-checking research as well. Notably, this new dataset is an order of magnitude larger than previously largest public fake news datasets of similar type. The LIAR dataset4 includes 12.8K human labeled short statements from POLITIFACT.COM’s API, and each statement is evaluated by a POLITIFACT.COM editor for its truthfulness.

You can use the download.sh file to download the dataset from the site.

Six classes where mapped to fake and real outputs

True -> Real
Mostly-True -> Real
Half-True -> Real
Mostly-False -> Fake
False -> Fake
Pants-On-Fire -> Fake

• Stemming
• Removal of puncutations
• Removal of Stopwords

The strategy which was used was ensemble of classifiers.

These are the five classifiers which were used in the ensembling, the hyperparameter tuning was done using the library optuna.

• Random Forest
• Logistic Regression
• Multinomial Naive Bayes
• Support Vector Classifiers
• SGD Classifier

If you wish to see the results of the trained models, you can use my models, which can be found in saved_models directory.

The Ensemble models are huge, so I have included a download script which are hosted on archive.org

If the download script is very slow, you use the below links

Tfidf Ensemble

Count Ensemble

|-- Detector.ipynb
|-- LICENSE
|-- README.md
|-- download.sh
|-- metric_data
|   |-- count_test_metric.csv
|   |-- count_train_metric.csv
|   |-- count_valid_metric.csv
|   |-- tfidf_test_metrics.csv
|   |-- tfidf_train_metrics.csv
|   `-- tfidf_valid_metrics.csv
|-- requirements.txt
`-- saved_models
    |-- count_logreg.pkl
    |-- count_nb.pkl
    |-- count_rf.pkl
    |-- count_sgd.pkl
    |-- count_svc.pkl
    |-- download_models.sh
    |-- tfidf_logreg.pkl
    |-- tfidf_nb.pkl
    |-- tfidf_rf.pkl
    |-- tfidf_sgd.pkl
    `-- tfidf_svc.pkl

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