FNC-1

Fake News Challenge Stage 1

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Overview

FNC-1 was designed as a stance detection dataset and it contains 75,385 labeled headline and article pairs. The pairs are labelled as either agree, disagree, discuss, and unrelated. Each headline in the dataset is phrased as a statement

Source: Investigating Rumor News Using Agreement-Aware Search
Image Source: http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/

Variants: FNC-1

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 2 benchmarks:

  • Stance Detection -
  • Fake News Detection -

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Stance Detection TESTED Topic-Guided Sampling For Data-Efficient Multi-Domain … 2023-06-01
Fake News Detection ZAINAB A. JAWAD, AHMED J. OBAID (CNN and DNN with SCM, 2022) Combination Of Convolution Neural Networks … 2022-10-15
Fake News Detection Bi-LSTM (max-pooling, attention) Combining Similarity Features and Deep … 2018-11-02
Fake News Detection Neural method from Mohtarami et al. + TF-IDF (Mohtarami et al., 2018) Automatic Stance Detection Using End-to-End … 2018-04-20
Fake News Detection Neural method from Mohtarami et al. (Mohtarami et al., 2018) Automatic Stance Detection Using End-to-End … 2018-04-20
Fake News Detection Bhatt et al. On the Benefit of Combining … 2017-12-11
Fake News Detection Neural baseline based on bi-directional LSTMs (Bhatt et al., 2017) On the Benefit of Combining … 2017-12-11
Fake News Detection Baseline based on skip-thought embeddings (Bhatt et al., 2017) On the Benefit of Combining … 2017-12-11
Fake News Detection Baseline based on word2vec + hand-crafted features (Bhatt et al., 2017) On the Benefit of Combining … 2017-12-11
Fake News Detection 3rd place at FNC-1 - Team UCL Machine Reading (Riedel et al., 2017) A simple but tough-to-beat baseline … 2017-07-11

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: