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05/03/2023
Some Observations on Fact-Checking Work with Implications for Computational Support
Social media and user-generated content (UGC) have become increasingly i...
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02/28/2023
PANACEA: An Automated Misinformation Detection System on COVID-19
In this demo, we introduce a web-based misinformation detection system P...
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02/16/2023
Cluster-based Deep Ensemble Learning for Emotion Classification in Internet Memes
Memes have gained popularity as a means to share visual ideas through th...
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02/16/2023
NUAA-QMUL-AIIT at Memotion 3: Multi-modal Fusion with Squeeze-and-Excitation for Internet Meme Emotion Analysis
This paper describes the participation of our NUAA-QMUL-AIIT team in the...
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01/11/2023
Few-shot Learning for Cross-Target Stance Detection by Aggregating Multimodal Embeddings
Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing...
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12/20/2022
AnnoBERT: Effectively Representing Multiple Annotators' Label Choices to Improve Hate Speech Detection
Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, ...
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12/16/2022
Check-worthy Claim Detection across Topics for Automated Fact-checking
An important component of an automated fact-checking system is the claim...
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11/15/2022
SexWEs: Domain-Aware Word Embeddings via Cross-lingual Semantic Specialisation for Chinese Sexism Detection in Social Media
The goal of sexism detection is to mitigate negative online content targ...
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08/18/2022
Active PETs: Active Data Annotation Prioritisation for Few-Shot Claim Verification with Pattern Exploiting Training
To mitigate the impact of data scarcity on fact-checking systems, we foc...
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07/14/2022
Session-based Cyberbullying Detection in Social Media: A Survey
Cyberbullying is a pervasive problem in online social media, where a bul...
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05/11/2022
Aggregating Pairwise Semantic Differences for Few-Shot Claim Veracity Classification
As part of an automated fact-checking pipeline, the claim veracity class...
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05/11/2022
Building for Tomorrow: Assessing the Temporal Persistence of Text Classifiers
Where performance of text classification models drops over time due to c...
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05/05/2022
Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims
We present a comprehensive work on automated veracity assessment from da...
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05/03/2022
Hidden behind the obvious: misleading keywords and implicitly abusive language on social media
While social media offers freedom of self-expression, abusive language c...
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04/01/2022
Cyberbullying detection across social media platforms via platform-aware adversarial encoding
Despite the increasing interest in cyberbullying detection, existing eff...
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11/05/2021
Sexism Identification in Tweets and Gabs using Deep Neural Networks
Through anonymisation and accessibility, social media platforms have fac...
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11/01/2021
Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection using Transformer Models
Hate speech detection within a cross-lingual setting represents a paramo...
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09/23/2021
Automated Fact-Checking: A Survey
As online false information continues to grow, automated fact-checking h...
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09/03/2021
A Longitudinal Multi-modal Dataset for Dementia Monitoring and Diagnosis
Dementia is a family of neurogenerative conditions affecting memory and ...
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09/01/2021
Capturing Stance Dynamics in Social Media: Open Challenges and Research Directions
Social media platforms provide a goldmine for mining public opinion on i...
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08/31/2021
The emojification of sentiment on social media: Collection and analysis of a longitudinal Twitter sentiment dataset
Social media, as a means for computer-mediated communication, has been e...
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08/27/2021
Opinions are Made to be Changed: Temporally Adaptive Stance Classification
Given the rapidly evolving nature of social media and people's views, wo...
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08/24/2021
Weakly Supervised Cross-platform Teenager Detection with Adversarial BERT
Teenager detection is an important case of the age detection task in soc...
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08/06/2021
Cross-lingual Capsule Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media
Most hate speech detection research focuses on a single language, genera...
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04/23/2021
QMUL-SDS at SCIVER: Step-by-Step Binary Classification for Scientific Claim Verification
Scientific claim verification is a unique challenge that is attracting i...
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02/28/2021
Citizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy
The development of democratic systems is a crucial task as confirmed by ...
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02/17/2021
Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions
Hate speech is one type of harmful online content which directly attacks...
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12/11/2020
TF-CR: Weighting Embeddings for Text Classification
Text classification, as the task consisting in assigning categories to t...
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11/23/2020
An Online Multilingual Hate speech Recognition System
The exponential increase in the use of the Internet and social media ove...
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11/05/2020
QMUL-SDS @ DIACR-Ita: Evaluating Unsupervised Diachronic Lexical Semantics Classification in Italian
In this paper, we present the results and main findings of our system fo...
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11/05/2020
NUAA-QMUL at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Utilizing BERT and DenseNet for Internet Meme Emotion Analysis
This paper describes our contribution to SemEval 2020 Task 8: Memotion A...
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11/02/2020
QMUL-SDS @ SardiStance: Leveraging Network Interactions to Boost Performance on Stance Detection using Knowledge Graphs
This paper presents our submission to the SardiStance 2020 shared task, ...
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08/30/2020
QMUL-SDS at CheckThat! 2020: Determining COVID-19 Tweet Check-Worthiness Using an Enhanced CT-BERT with Numeric Expressions
This paper describes the participation of the QMUL-SDS team for Task 1 o...
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06/03/2020
Exploiting Class Labels to Boost Performance on Embedding-based Text Classification
Text classification is one of the most frequent tasks for processing tex...
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12/03/2018
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Public Perception of the Opportunities and Challenges of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (or IoT), which enables the networked interconnec...
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11/14/2018
Leveraging Aspect Phrase Embeddings for Cross-Domain Review Rating Prediction
Online review platforms are a popular way for users to post reviews by e...
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09/21/2018
Towards Automated Factchecking: Developing an Annotation Schema and Benchmark for Consistent Automated Claim Detection
In an effort to assist factcheckers in the process of factchecking, we t...
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09/18/2018
RumourEval 2019: Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours
This is the proposal for RumourEval-2019, which will run in early 2019 a...
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06/10/2018
All-in-one: Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification
Automatic resolution of rumours is a challenging task that can be broken...
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04/10/2018
Mining Social Media for Newsgathering
Social media is becoming an increasingly important data source for learn...
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01/22/2018
Learning Class-specific Word Representations for Early Detection of Hoaxes in Social Media
As people increasingly use social media as a source for news consumption...
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12/06/2017
Discourse-Aware Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media Using Sequential Classifiers
Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of speci...
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09/26/2017
A Longitudinal Assessment of the Persistence of Twitter Datasets
Sharing of social media datasets presents the caveat that they are not a...
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04/20/2017
SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours
Media is full of false claims. Even Oxford Dictionaries named "post-trut...
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04/03/2017
Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey
Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and...
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02/27/2017
Stance Classification of Social Media Users in Independence Movements
Social media and data mining are increasingly being used to analyse poli...
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10/24/2016
Learning Reporting Dynamics during Breaking News for Rumour Detection in Social Media
Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social medi...
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09/07/2016
Using Gaussian Processes for Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media
Social media tend to be rife with rumours while new reports are released...
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06/14/2016
Using Fuzzy Logic to Leverage HTML Markup for Web Page Representation
The selection of a suitable document representation approach plays a cru...
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04/25/2016
