Connie Cofré-Morales

Ms. Connie Cofré-Morales

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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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20 May 2026 in Applied Sciences
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POPablo Ormeño
Pablo Ormeño
EPEduardo Puraivan
Eduardo Puraivan
Steffanie KlossSteffanie Kloss
Steffanie Kloss
CCConnie Cofré-Morales
Connie Cofré-Morales
MRMiguel Rodriguez
Miguel Rodriguez
The rapid proliferation of online misinformation poses significant risks to democratic processes and public decision-making. However, existing machine learning and deep learning approaches often rely on large annotated datasets and exhibit limited robustness under severe class imbalance and low-resource conditions, particularly in Spanish-language contexts. To address this, this study proposes an interpretable and robust framework for misinformation detection under such constraints. A unified, linguistically grounded and data-centric pipeline is developed, integrating structured lexical, syntactic, and semantic features with synthetic minority augmentation, class-balanced ensemble learning, autoencoder-based representation learning, and active learning under data scarcity. Importantly, the framework systematically evaluates the interaction between these components within a reproducible experimental setting. Results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves consistent improvements in macro-averaged F1 and minority-class recall compared to baseline models, while reducing performance variance across folds. Ensemble and augmentation strategies provide the most stable configurations, enhancing the detection of underrepresented classes. Moreover, the use of interpretable linguistic features allows predictions to be associated with discourse-level patterns, improving transparency. Consequently, the framework offers a reproducible, computationally efficient, and interpretable solution for misinformation detection in low-resource environments, supporting practical deployment and future multilingual extensions. Importantly, this study provides the first systematic analysis of the interaction between linguistic representations and imbalance mitigation strategies under extreme data scarcity.

18 February 2025
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EPEduardo Puraivan
Eduardo Puraivan
CCConnie Cofré-Morales
Connie Cofré-Morales
MRMiguel Rodriguez
Miguel Rodriguez
TLTamara Lasnibat-Godoy
Tamara Lasnibat-Godoy
JTJuan Tapia
Juan Tapia
María Dolores Díaz  NogueraMaría Dolores Díaz Noguera
María Dolores Díaz Noguera


9 November 2025
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MRMiguel Rodriguez
Miguel Rodriguez
EPEduardo Puraivan
Eduardo Puraivan
LPLuis Puebla-Rives
Luis Puebla-Rives
JRJuan Pablo Ruiz-Rodríguez
Juan Pablo Ruiz-Rodríguez
DSDiego Saavedra-Lizana
Diego Saavedra-Lizana
Pablo GregoriPablo Gregori
Pablo Gregori