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Assisting the Human Fact-Checkers: Detecting All Previously Fact-Checked Claims in a Document
Given the recent proliferation of false claims online, there has been a lot of manual fact-checking effort. As this is very …
Shaden Shaar, Nikola Georgiev, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Aisha Mohamed, Preslav Nakov
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A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news, propaganda, misinformation, and …
Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov
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The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims
Recent years have seen the proliferation of disinformation and fake news online. Traditional approaches to mitigate these issues is to …
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov
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Cross-lingual Emotion Detection
Emotion detection can provide us with a window into understanding human behavior. Due to the complex dynamics of human emotions, …
Sabit Hassan, Shaden Shaar, Kareem Darwish
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Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated …
Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Alex Nikolov, Hamdy Mubarak, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Kareem Darwish, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Wajdi Zaghouani, Tommaso Caselli, Gijs Danoe, Friso Stolk, Britt Bruntink, Preslav Nakov
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A Second Pandemic? Analysis of Fake News about COVID-19 Vaccines in Qatar
While COVID-19 vaccines are finally becoming widely available, a second pandemic that revolves around the circulation of anti-vaxxer …
Preslav Nakov, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino, Yifan Zhang
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COVID-19 in Bulgarian Social Media: Factuality, Harmfulness, Propaganda, and Framing
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated …
Preslav Nakov, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino, Yifan Zhang
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Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes
Propaganda can be defined as a form of communication that aims to influence the opinions or the actions of people towards a specific …
Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino
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SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images
We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the …
Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino
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Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection
We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1 focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in …
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alex Nikolov, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Anna Feldman
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