Disinformation research in Bulgarian. Datasets and tools

Dobreva, Milena (2021) Disinformation research in Bulgarian. Datasets and tools. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3061. pp. 54-63. ISSN 1613-0073 (https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3061/)

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Abstract

This paper presents the initial results of an ongoing study on developing a digital toolkit for experimentation with social media content in Bulgarian aimed at discovering disinformation. This effort is aimed at providing a basis for systematic studies of Bulgarian social media content. The initial datasets used for experiments are related to the Covid-19 pandemic on samples of posts from Facebook and Twitter. The paper also describes some initial ideas on building an infrastructure for collaboration in social media research in Bulgarian.