FibVid dataset texts with OCR degradations

This is the text of the FibVid dataset dedicated to fake news detection that has been updated to be used in event detection. Kim, Jisu, Jihwan Aum, SangEun Lee, Yeonju Jang, Eunil Park, et Daejin Choi. 2021. « FibVID: Comprehensive Fake News Diffusion Dataset during the COVID-19 Period ». <em>Telematics and Informatics</em> 64 (novembre): 101688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101688. Guillaume Bernard. (2022). Fibvid dataset with multiple extracted features (both sparse and dense) (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6630409 Some degradations are applied using the DocCreator [1] tool in order to degrade the text of the tweets and to reproduce some common errors found in OCRised documents [2]. [1]: Journet, Nicholas, Muriel Visani, Boris Mansencal, Kieu Van-Cuong, et Antoine Billy. 2017. « DocCreator: A New Software for Creating Synthetic Ground-Truthed Document Images ». <em>Journal of Imaging</em> 3 (4): 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging3040062. [2]: Linhares Pontes, Elvys, Ahmed Hamdi, Nicolas Sidere, et Antoine Doucet. 2019. « Impact of OCR Quality on Named Entity Linking ». In <em>Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future</em>, 11853:102‑15. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_11. The results of the OCR degradations are as follow: FibVid CER/WER Without Character degradation Phantom degradation Bleed Blur All FibVid CER 1.463 6.089 1.461 1.467 1.935 6.359 FibVid WER 2.065 20.797 2.041 2.052 2.868 21.396