FakeNewsNLP

A simple Flask application to check if the given news article is real or fake. Uses the LIAR dataset with fewer attributes.

NLP methods used:

• Stopword removal
• Lemmatization
• Bag of Words
• TF-IDF

Classifier used: Multinomial Naive Bayes

To run this application:

1. Extract the dataset 'fake_or_real_news.csv' from the zip file
2. Run clean.py in the fakenews module to preprocess the dataset
3. Run the application by executing run.py