BeLink: Querying networks of facts, statements and beliefs

  • Tien Duc Cao
  • , Ludivine Duroyon
  • , François Goasdoué
  • , Ioana Manolescu
  • , Xavier Tannier

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Abstract

An important class of journalistic fact-checking scenarios [2] involves verifying the claims and knowledge of different actors at different moments in time. Claims may be about facts, or about other claims, leading to chains of hearsay. We have recently proposed [4] a data model for (time-anchored) facts, statements and beliefs. It builds upon the W3C's RDF standard for Linked Open Data to describe connections between agents and their statements, and to trace information propagation as agents communicate. We propose to demonstrate BeLink, a prototype capable of storing such interconnected corpora, and answer powerful queries over them relying on SPARQL 1.1. The demo will showcase the exploration of a rich real-data corpus built from Twitter and mainstream media, and interconnected through extraction of statements with their sources, time, and topics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2019 - Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2941-2944
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450369763
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2019
Event28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019 - Beijing, China
Duration: 3 Nov 20197 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

Conference28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period3/11/197/11/19

Keywords

  • Belief databases
  • Data journalism
  • Fact-checking
  • Semantic Web

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