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Examining the Limitations of Computational Rumor Detection Models Trained on Static Datasets
Yida Mu, Xingyi Song, Kalina Bontcheva +1
A crucial aspect of a rumor detection model is its ability to generalize, particularly its ability to detect emerging, previously unknown rumors. Past research has indicated that c…
Classification-Aware Neural Topic Model Combined With Interpretable Analysis -- For Conflict Classification
Tianyu Liang, Yida Mu, Soonho Kim +4
A large number of conflict events are affecting the world all the time. In order to analyse such conflict events effectively, this paper presents a Classification-Aware Neural Topi…
Bio-SIEVE: Exploring Instruction Tuning Large Language Models for Systematic Review Automation
Ambrose Robinson, William Thorne, Ben P. Wu +4
Medical systematic reviews can be very costly and resource intensive. We explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can support and be trained to perform literature screening when pr…
Comparison between parameter-efficient techniques and full fine-tuning: A case study on multilingual news article classification
Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Ben Wu, Joao A. Leite +5
Adapters and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) are parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques designed to make the training of language models more efficient. Previous results demonstrate…
Breaking Language Barriers with MMTweets: Advancing Cross-Lingual Debunked Narrative Retrieval for Fact-Checking
Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Xingyi Song +1
Finding previously debunked narratives involves identifying claims that have already undergone fact-checking. The issue intensifies when similar false claims persist in multiple la…
A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Accurate COVID-19 Information versus Misinformation
Yida Mu, Ye Jiang, Freddy Heppell +4
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an infodemic where an overwhelming amount of COVID-19 related content was being disseminated at high velocity through social media. This made it challe…
Navigating Prompt Complexity for Zero-Shot Classification: A Study of Large Language Models in Computational Social Science
Yida Mu, Ben P. Wu, William Thorne +5
Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive language understanding and the capacity to generate responses that follow specific prompts. However, due to…
Examining Temporalities on Stance Detection towards COVID-19 Vaccination
Yida Mu, Mali Jin, Kalina Bontcheva +1
Previous studies have highlighted the importance of vaccination as an effective strategy to control the transmission of the COVID-19 virus. It is crucial for policymakers to have a…
Similarity-Aware Multimodal Prompt Learning for Fake News Detection
Ye Jiang, Xiaomin Yu, Yimin Wang +3
The standard paradigm for fake news detection mainly utilizes text information to model the truthfulness of news. However, the discourse of online fake news is typically subtle and…
SheffieldVeraAI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Mono and multilingual approaches for news genre, topic and persuasion technique classification
Ben Wu, Olesya Razuvayevskaya, Freddy Heppell +4
This paper describes our approach for SemEval-2023 Task 3: Detecting the category, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news in a multi-lingual setup. For Subtask 1…
VaxxHesitancy: A Dataset for Studying Hesitancy towards COVID-19 Vaccination on Twitter
Yida Mu, Mali Jin, Charlie Grimshaw +3
Vaccine hesitancy has been a common concern, probably since vaccines were created and, with the popularisation of social media, people started to express their concerns about vacci…
Comparative Analysis of Engagement, Themes, and Causality of Ukraine-Related Debunks and Disinformation
Iknoor Singh, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song +1
This paper compares quantitatively the spread of Ukraine-related disinformation and its corresponding debunks, first by considering re-tweets, replies, and favourites, which demons…
Classifying COVID-19 vaccine narratives
Yue Li, Carolina Scarton, Xingyi Song +1
Vaccine hesitancy is widespread, despite the government's information campaigns and the efforts of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Categorising the topics within vaccine-relat…
An Exploratory Study on Utilising the Web of Linked Data for Product Data Mining
Ziqi Zhang, Xingyi Song
The Linked Open Data practice has led to a significant growth of structured data on the Web in the last decade. Such structured data describe real-world entities in a machine-reada…
Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of COVID-19 Infodemic
Ye Jiang, Xingyi Song, Carolina Scarton +2
The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers. According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation st…
Classification Aware Neural Topic Model and its Application on a New COVID-19 Disinformation Corpus
Xingyi Song, Johann Petrak, Ye Jiang +3
The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses world…
RP-DNN: A Tweet level propagation context based deep neural networks for early rumor detection in Social Media
Jie Gao, Sooji Han, Xingyi Song +1
Early rumor detection (ERD) on social media platform is very challenging when limited, incomplete and noisy information is available. Most of the existing methods have largely work…
Online Abuse of UK MPs from 2015 to 2019: Working Paper
Mark A. Greenwood, Mehmet E. Bakir, Genevieve Gorrell +3
We extend previous work about general election-related abuse of UK MPs with two new time periods, one in late 2018 and the other in early 2019, allowing previous observations to be…
Bio-YODIE: A Named Entity Linking System for Biomedical Text
Genevieve Gorrell, Xingyi Song, Angus Roberts
Ever-expanding volumes of biomedical text require automated semantic annotation techniques to curate and put to best use. An established field of research seeks to link mentions in…
A Deep Neural Network Sentence Level Classification Method with Context Information
Xingyi Song, Johann Petrak, Angus Roberts
In the sentence classification task, context formed from sentences adjacent to the sentence being classified can provide important information for classification. This context is,…