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most citedOverview of the CLEF--2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News

18 citations · 51 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL20223 cited

Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic

Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani +2

Propaganda is the expression of an opinion or an action by an individual or a group deliberately designed to influence the opinions or the actions of other individuals or groups wi…

cs.LG2022

GREENER: Graph Neural Networks for News Media Profiling

Panayot Panayotov, Utsav Shukla, Husrev Taha Sencar +2

We study the problem of profiling news media on the Web with respect to their factuality of reporting and bias. This is an important but under-studied problem related to disinforma…

cs.CL20225 cited

CrowdChecked: Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims in Social Media

Momchil Hardalov, Anton Chernyavskiy, Ivan Koychev +2

While there has been substantial progress in developing systems to automate fact-checking, they still lack credibility in the eyes of the users. Thus, an interesting approach has e…

cs.CL20223 cited

Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey

Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar +7

The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audi…

cs.CL20221 cited

DISARM: Detecting the Victims Targeted by Harmful Memes

Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov +1

Internet memes have emerged as an increasingly popular means of communication on the Web. Although typically intended to elicit humour, they have been increasingly used to spread h…

cs.CL20221 cited

TeamX@DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: A Comparative Analysis for Troll-Based Meme Classification

Rabindra Nath Nandi, Firoj Alam, Preslav Nakov

The spread of fake news, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and harmful content online raised concerns among social media platforms, government agencies, policymakers, and…