Published June 10, 2022 | Version 1.0
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CoAID dataset texts with OCR degradations

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  • 1. Laboratoire L3i, Université de La Rochelle

Description

This is the text of the CoAID dataset dedicated to fake news detection that has been updated to be used in event detection.

Cui, Limeng, et Dongwon Lee. 2020. « CoAID: COVID-19 Healthcare Misinformation Dataset ». ArXiv:2006.00885 [Cs], novembre. http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00885.

Guillaume Bernard. (2022). CoAID dataset with multiple extracted features (both sparse and dense) (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6630405

Some degradations are applied using the DocCreator [1] tool in order to degrade the text of the tweets and to reproduce some common errors found in OCRised documents [2].

[1]: Journet, Nicholas, Muriel Visani, Boris Mansencal, Kieu Van-Cuong, et Antoine Billy. 2017. « DocCreator: A New Software for Creating Synthetic Ground-Truthed Document Images ». Journal of Imaging 3 (4): 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging3040062.

[2]: Linhares Pontes, Elvys, Ahmed Hamdi, Nicolas Sidere, et Antoine Doucet. 2019. « Impact of OCR Quality on Named Entity Linking ». In Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future, 11853:102‑15. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_11.

The results of the OCR degradations are as follow:

CoAID CER/WER
    Without Character degradation Phantom degradation Bleed Blur All
CoAID CER 2.105 6.358 2.105 2.122 2.616 7.898
CoAID WER 2.494 20.230 2.496 2.580 3.726 20.230

 

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Funding

European Commission
NewsEye - NewsEye: A Digital Investigator for Historical Newspapers 770299