Satirical News Detection and Analysis

Code for the paper

Satirical News Detection and Analysis using Attention Mechanism and Linguisitc Features

Dataset

Currently, the dataset is hosted at Mendeley.

Please download the data from Here.

Pre-processing the dataset

The code requires linguitsitc features to be pre-processed.

We will provide the scripts for pre-processing and update dependencies soon.

Dependencies

Theano 0.9 Lasagne 0.2 python 3.4

Content

• char_hierarchical_linguistic_rnn.py - 4 level char-word-paragraph-document network with paragraph-level and document-level linguistic features.
• char_hierarchical_para.py - 4 level char-word-paragraph-document network with paragraph-level linguistic features
• char_hierarchical_doc.py - 4 level char-word-paragraph-document network with document-level linguistic features
• char_hierarchical.py - 4 level char-word-paragraph-document network
• hierarchical_linguistic_rnn.py - 3 level word-paragraph-document network with linguistic features
• hierarchical_rnn.py - Implementation of Hierarchical Attention Network
• arg_parser.py
• data_utilities.py
• evaluations.py
• minibatch.py
• networks.py
• theano_function.py
• utilities.py

Hyper-parameters

Please see arg_parser.py for detail.

Question

For more question about the dataset, please contact Fan Yang, fyang11@uh.edu