Credibility analysis on Chinese tweets with domain knowledge

Credibility analysis of tweets automatically is a hot topic in computer science. Existing approaches include comparing relative information from trusted media, evaluating user credibility by analyzing user graph propagation, applying machine learning methods to judge the credibility of giving tweets, etc. In this project, we are interested in how we can include domain knowledge in the task of credibility analysis of Chinese tweet. For example, if we are given a set of tweets about Bioinformatics, how can we judge the credibility of the tweets base on training data and some existing Bioinformatics information?

Project Information

Supervisor: Dr. Lucas Hui

Student: Bill Yue

Input Module

Inital Stage:
Textarea on a webpage
Final Stage:
Twitter API
Other options:
Web crawling/other social media

Processing Module

Natural Language Processing:
To derive meaning from human or natural language input Segmentation:
To separate each word phrase

Analysis Module

Statistical analysis
Sentiment analysis

Display Module

Data Visualization
Display the result on a webpage.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

-Alan Turing

Project Progress

Here is the progress of my project.

Project Deliverables

This shows the deliverables for the project requirements.

Project Web Page
90% Complete
Project Plan
100% Complete
Interim Report
10% Complete
Final report
5% Complete

Product Development

The final product of this project would be a website with serveral servers.

Input Module
5% Complete
Processing Module
5% Complete
Analysis Module
5% Complete
Display Module
5% Complete

2015/16 FYP Timetable

Here is my project schedule

Oct 2015
  • Deliverables of Phase 1(Inception)
  • Detailed project plan
  • Project web page
  • 1 September 2015 - 4 October 2015

Jan 2016
  • First presentation
  • 11-15 January 2016

  • Deliverables of Phase 2(Elaboration)
  • Preliminary implementation
  • Detailed interim report
  • 15-24 January 2016

Apr 2016
  • Deliverables of Phase 3 (Construction)
  • Finalized tested implementation
  • Final report
  • 17 April 2016

  • Final presentation
  • 18-22 April 2016

May 2016
  • Project exhibition
  • 3 May 2016

Documentation

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Supervisor:

Dr. Lucas Hui

Student:

Bill Yue