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Demystifying Funding: Reconstructing a Unified Dataset of the UK Funding Lifecycle
William Thorne, Rupert Shepherd, Diana Maynard
We present a reconstruction of UKRI's Gateway to Research (GtR) database that links funding opportunities to their resulting project proposals through panel meeting outcomes. Unlik…
Evaluating LLM-Based Grant Proposal Review via Structured Perturbations
William Thorne, Joseph James, Yang Wang +2
As AI-assisted grant proposals outpace manual review capacity in a kind of ``Malthusian trap'' for the research ecosystem, this paper investigates the capabilities and limitations…
Examining Temporal Bias in Abusive Language Detection
Mali Jin, Yida Mu, Diana Maynard +1
The use of abusive language online has become an increasingly pervasive problem that damages both individuals and society, with effects ranging from psychological harm right throug…
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…
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…
Local Media and Geo-situated Responses to Brexit: A Quantitative Analysis of Twitter, News and Survey Data
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Luke Temple +5
Societal debates and political outcomes are subject to news and social media influences, which are in turn subject to commercial and other forces. Local press are in decline, creat…