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CAPS: A Cross-Lingual Methodology for Detecting Misinformation in Estonian Health News
This research introduces CAPS, a groundbreaking cross-lingual methodology designed to combat health misinformation in low-resource settings. By combining automated inference with strategic manual annotation, CAPS efficiently creates robust, high-quality datasets crucial for advancing AI-driven misinformation detection, particularly for languages like Estonian.
Executive Impact & Strategic Value
The CAPS methodology offers a scalable and efficient solution for generating misinformation datasets in low-resource languages, addressing a critical gap in global public health initiatives and digital information integrity.
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CAPS Cross-Lingual Methodology
The Cross-lingual Alignment and Confident Prediction Sampling (CAPS) approach operates in two sequential phases to efficiently generate ground truth labels for misinformation in low-resource languages.
Enterprise Process Flow
English Misinformation Sources
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Estonian Unlabeled News
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Embedding Generation (SBERT)
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Pairwise Cosine Similarity
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Threshold-Based Filtering
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Manual Annotation (Subset)
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Iterative Classification & Confidence Sampling
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Estonian Labeled News Dataset (8,795 Articles)
Estonian Health Misinformation Dataset Overview
CAPS successfully created the first comprehensive dataset of health-related misinformation for Estonian, addressing a critical resource gap for future research and practical applications.
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Total Estonian Health News Articles Labeled
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Dataset Scaling Efficiency (Phase II Step 2)
Multilingual Model Performance & Selection
A comparative analysis of various multilingual models determined the most effective for detecting misinformation in Estonian, balancing high F1 scores with data retention.
| Model | Threshold | F1 Score | Precision | Recall | Dataset (%) |
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| M-BERT | 0.95 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 0.67 | 62.6% |
| EstBERT | 0.97 | 0.87 | 0.83 | 0.91 | 33.3% |
| XLM-RBase | 0.5 | 0.45 | 0.80 | 0.32 | 100.0% |
| XLM-RLarge | 0.998 | 0.84 | 0.87 | 0.81 | 58.6% |
| ERNIE-MLarge | 0.98 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 58.6% |
Recommendation: ERNIE-MLarge demonstrated the optimal balance of high F1 score (0.88) and significant data retention (58.6%), making it the most suitable model for iterative classification within CAPS Phase II.
Article Length & Classification Accuracy
An analysis revealed that article length significantly impacts misinformation classification. Longer articles were more frequently identified as misinformation, even when transformer model limitations led to truncation.
Understanding Truncation's Role in Detection
Challenge: Transformer models typically cap sequence length at 512 tokens. With 52% of Estonian news articles exceeding this limit, truncation could potentially lead to missed misinformation.
Observation: A chi-square test (χ²(1) = 105.88, p < 0.001) confirmed a strong association: longer articles were more often classified as misinformation. Despite truncation, all labeled misinformation in the sample was correctly identified.
Implication: This suggests the model's robustness, possibly due to critical misinformation cues being present in the initial sections of articles. Future enhancements could explore summarization to optimize for length while preserving accuracy.
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