Detecting Satire in the News with Machine Learning

We built models with Logistic Regression and linear Support Vector Machines on a large dataset consisting of regular news articles and news from satirical websites, and showed that such linear classifiers on a corpus with about 60,000 articles can perform with a precision of 98.7% and a recall of 95...

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