RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours

Understand

This is the proposal for RumourEval-2019, which will run in early 2019 as part of that year's SemEval event.

• Since the first RumourEval shared task in 2017, interest in automated claim validation has greatly increased, as the dangers of "fake news" have become a mainstream concern.
• Yet automated support for rumour checking remains in its infancy.
• For this reason, it is important that a shared task in this area continues to provide a focus for effort, which is likely to increase.