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20192026
most citedSemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

23 citations · 30 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

LLMs Underperform Graph-Based Parsers on Supervised Relation Extraction for Complex Graphs

Paolo Gajo, Domenic Rosati, Hassan Sajjad +1

Relation extraction represents a fundamental component in the process of creating knowledge graphs, among other applications. Large language models (LLMs) have been adopted as a pr…

cs.CL2025

Dependency Parsing is More Parameter-Efficient with Normalization

Paolo Gajo, Domenic Rosati, Hassan Sajjad +1

Dependency parsing is the task of inferring natural language structure, often approached by modeling word interactions via attention through biaffine scoring. This mechanism works…

cs.CL2024

Hate Speech According to the Law: An Analysis for Effective Detection

Katerina Korre, John Pavlopoulos, Paolo Gajo +1

The issue of hate speech extends beyond the confines of the online realm. It is a problem with real-life repercussions, prompting most nations to formulate legal frameworks that cl…

cs.CL2024

Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains

Katerina Korre, Arianna Muti, Federico Ruggeri +1

Hate speech relies heavily on cultural influences, leading to varying individual interpretations. For that reason, we propose a Semantic Componential Analysis (SCA) framework for a…

cs.CL2024

Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed: Unpacking Implied Misogynistic Reasoning with Argumentation Theory-Driven Prompts

Arianna Muti, Federico Ruggeri, Khalid Al-Khatib +2

We propose misogyny detection as an Argumentative Reasoning task and we investigate the capacity of large language models (LLMs) to understand the implicit reasoning used to convey…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

QueerBench: Quantifying Discrimination in Language Models Toward Queer Identities

Mae Sosto, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

With the increasing role of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in various applications, challenges concerning bias and stereotype perpetuation are accentuated, which often leads to…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Let Guidelines Guide You: A Prescriptive Guideline-Centered Data Annotation Methodology

Federico Ruggeri, Eleonora Misino, Arianna Muti +3

We introduce the Guideline-Centered Annotation Methodology (GCAM), a novel data annotation methodology designed to report the annotation guidelines associated with each data sample…

cs.CL2024

PejorativITy: Disambiguating Pejorative Epithets to Improve Misogyny Detection in Italian Tweets

Arianna Muti, Federico Ruggeri, Cagri Toraman +6

Misogyny is often expressed through figurative language. Some neutral words can assume a negative connotation when functioning as pejorative epithets. Disambiguating the meaning of…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

A Corpus for Sentence-level Subjectivity Detection on English News Articles

Francesco Antici, Andrea Galassi, Federico Ruggeri +5

We develop novel annotation guidelines for sentence-level subjectivity detection, which are not limited to language-specific cues. We use our guidelines to collect NewsSD-ENG, a co…

cs.AI2021

Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers

Preslav Nakov, David Corney, Maram Hasanain +6

The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians an…

cs.CL2020★ 23 cited

SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

G. Da San Martino, A. Barrón-Cedeño, H. Wachsmuth +2

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is about Spa…

cs.CL2020

Prta: A System to Support the Analysis of Propaganda Techniques in the News

Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Yifan Zhang +3

Recent events, such as the 2016 US Presidential Campaign, Brexit and the COVID-19 "infodemic", have brought into the spotlight the dangers of online disinformation. There has been…

cs.CL2019

A Context-Aware Approach for Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Political Debates

Pepa Gencheva, Ivan Koychev, Lluís Màrquez +2

In the context of investigative journalism, we address the problem of automatically identifying which claims in a given document are most worthy and should be prioritized for fact-…