Shaden Shaar

Shaden Shaar

PhD Student

Cornell University

Shaden Shaar is currently a computer science PhD student at Cornell University with Prof. Claire Cardie. She is currently working on long-document summarization, and event extraction. She was the recipient of the Cornell Fellowship in 2021. Previously she worked with Dr. Preslav Nakov on Automated fact-checking and propaganda detection in news.

Recent Publications

(2022). Assisting the Human Fact-Checkers: Detecting All Previously Fact-Checked Claims in a Document. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.

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(2022). A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

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(2022). The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022.

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(2022). Cross-lingual Emotion Detection. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.

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(2021). Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Apple
AI/ML Research Intern
Apple
May 2022 – August 2022 Seattle, USA
Generated conditioned multi-turn conversational dataset for Siri
 
 
 
 
 
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Research Assistant
Qatar Computing Research Institute
August 2021 – July 2019 Doha, Qatar

Worked on multiple projects:

  • Automated Fact-checking
  • Propaganda Detections
  • Emotion Detection in Limited Resource Language