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April Fools Corpus

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A corpus of April Fools news articles used in the paper: "Fool’s Errand: Looking at April Fools Hoaxes as Disinformation through the Lens of Deception and Humour" (https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/fools-errand(3fb53494-6b3a-4f21-9205-d525e87fa080).html)

Dataset contains full text as well as PoS and Semantic tags for a corpus of April Fools News articles.

Also contains tagged Fake News articles from Horne and Adali's fake news dataset (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09398)

The code used to process this data can all be found at the following link:
https://github.com/dearden/april-fools
Date made available1/03/2022
PublisherLancaster University

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