Cross-modal Attention Network with Orthogonal Latent Memory for Rumor Detection

Zekai Wu, Jiaxin Chen, Zhenguo Yang, Haoran Xie, Fu Lee Wang, Wenyin Liu

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Abstract

In this paper, we design a cross-modal attention fusion network with orthogonal latent memory (CALM) to fuse multi-modal social media data for rumor detection. Given multimodal content features extracted from text and images, we devise a cross-modal attention fusion (CAF) mechanism to extract critical information underlying the modalities by intra-modality attention, and model the underlying relations among the modalities by inter-modality attention. In terms of the text, the natural sequential characteristics are critical to semantic understanding, while existing sequence models suffer from losing the information conveyed by the former words. To this end, we propose a Bi-GRU with orthogonal latent memory to extract the sequential features from the text, where the memory captures independent patterns. The fused content features and the sequential features can be used for rumor detection seamlessly. Extensive experiments conducted on two real-world datasets show the outperformance of the proposed CALM. (e.g., F1 -score is improved from 0.823 to 0.846 on Weibo dataset).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWeb Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2021 - 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, Proceedings
EditorsWenjie Zhang, Lei Zou, Zakaria Maamar, Lu Chen
Pages527-541
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021 - Melbourne, Australia
Duration: 26 Oct 202129 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13080 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityMelbourne
Period26/10/2129/10/21

Keywords

  • Multi-modal
  • Rumor detection
  • Social media

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