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MovieRecapsQA: A Multimodal Open-Ended Video Question-Answering Benchmark
Shaden Shaar, Bradon Thymes, Sirawut Chaixanien +2
Understanding real-world videos such as movies requires integrating visual and dialogue cues. Yet existing VideoQA benchmarks struggle to capture this multimodal reasoning and, giv…
Are Triggers Needed for Document-Level Event Extraction?
Shaden Shaar, Wayne Chen, Maitreyi Chatterjee +3
Most existing work on event extraction has focused on sentence-level texts and presumes the identification of a trigger-span -- a word or phrase in the input that evokes the occurr…
Overview of the CLEF--2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed +16
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to…
Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino +4
We present the results and the main findings of the NLP4IF-2021 shared tasks. Task 1 focused on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media, and it was offered in Arabic, Bulga…
Cross-lingual Emotion Detection
Sabit Hassan, Shaden Shaar, Kareem Darwish
Emotion detection can provide us with a window into understanding human behavior. Due to the complex dynamics of human emotions, however, constructing annotated datasets to train a…
SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images
Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar +5
We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the participa…
The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino +1
Recent years have seen the proliferation of disinformation and fake news online. Traditional approaches to mitigate these issues is to use manual or automatic fact-checking. Recent…
A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection
Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty +6
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about t…
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…
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov +9
We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks com…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…
That is a Known Lie: Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims
Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino, Nikolay Babulkov +1
The recent proliferation of "fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a la…
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…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society
Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi +14
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first glo…