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most citedToward a Perspectivist Turn in Ground Truthing for Predictive Computing

67 citations · 123 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning With Disagreements (LeWiDi)

Elisa Leonardelli, Alexandra Uma, Gavin Abercrombie +6

NLP datasets annotated with human judgments are rife with disagreements between the judges. This is especially true for tasks depending on subjective judgments such as sentiment an…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

O-Dang! The Ontology of Dangerous Speech Messages

Marco A. Stranisci, Simona Frenda, Mirko Lai +5

Inside the NLP community there is a considerable amount of language resources created, annotated and released every day with the aim of studying specific linguistic phenomena. Desp…

cs.CL2022

APPReddit: a Corpus of Reddit Posts Annotated for Appraisal

Marco Antonio Stranisci, Simona Frenda, Eleonora Ceccaldi +3

Despite the large number of computational resources for emotion recognition, there is a lack of data sets relying on appraisal models. According to Appraisal theories, emotions are…

cs.CV2021

Local Multi-Head Channel Self-Attention for Facial Expression Recognition

Roberto Pecoraro, Valerio Basile, Viviana Bono +1

Since the Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 there has been many attempts to bring the self-attention paradigm in the field of computer vision. In this paper we propos…

cs.LG2021★ 67 cited

Toward a Perspectivist Turn in Ground Truthing for Predictive Computing

Valerio Basile, Federico Cabitza, Andrea Campagner +1

Most Artificial Intelligence applications are based on supervised machine learning (ML), which ultimately grounds on manually annotated data. The annotation process is often perfor…

cs.CL2021★ 27 cited

Whose Opinions Matter? Perspective-aware Models to Identify Opinions of Hate Speech Victims in Abusive Language Detection

Sohail Akhtar, Valerio Basile, Viviana Patti

Social media platforms provide users the freedom of expression and a medium to exchange information and express diverse opinions. Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the growt…

cs.CL2020★ 15 cited

Multilingual Irony Detection with Dependency Syntax and Neural Models

Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Valerio Basile, Manuela Sanguinetti +3

This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the effectiveness of dependency-based syntactic features on the irony detection task in a multilingual perspective (English, Spanis…

cs.CL2020

HateBERT: Retraining BERT for Abusive Language Detection in English

Tommaso Caselli, Valerio Basile, Jelena Mitrović +1

In this paper, we introduce HateBERT, a re-trained BERT model for abusive language detection in English. The model was trained on RAL-E, a large-scale dataset of Reddit comments in…

cs.CL2019★ 12 cited

Stance Classification for Rumour Analysis in Twitter: Exploiting Affective Information and Conversation Structure

Endang Wahyu Pamungkas, Valerio Basile, Viviana Patti

Analysing how people react to rumours associated with news in social media is an important task to prevent the spreading of misinformation, which is nowadays widely recognized as a…

cs.AI2018

Empirical Analysis of Foundational Distinctions in Linked Open Data

Luigi Asprino, Valerio Basile, Paolo Ciancarini +1

The Web and its Semantic extension (i.e. Linked Open Data) contain open global-scale knowledge and make it available to potentially intelligent machines that want to benefit from i…