7 papers
Event Causality Identification with Causal News Corpus -- Shared Task 3, CASE 2022
Fiona Anting Tan, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Ali Hürriyetoğlu +4
The Event Causality Identification Shared Task of CASE 2022 involved two subtasks working on the Causal News Corpus. Subtask 1 required participants to predict if a sentence contai…
Extended Multilingual Protest News Detection -- Shared Task 1, CASE 2021 and 2022
Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Osman Mutlu, Fırat Duruşan +12
We report results of the CASE 2022 Shared Task 1 on Multilingual Protest Event Detection. This task is a continuation of CASE 2021 that consists of four subtasks that are i) docume…
The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News
Fiona Anting Tan, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Tommaso Caselli +7
Despite the importance of understanding causality, corpora addressing causal relations are limited. There is a discrepancy between existing annotation guidelines of event causality…
Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic
Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi
The massive spread of false information on social media has become a global risk especially in a global pandemic situation like COVID-19. False information detection has thus becom…
TransWiC at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Transformer-based Multilingual and Cross-lingual Word-in-Context Disambiguation
Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe
Identifying whether a word carries the same meaning or different meaning in two contexts is an important research area in natural language processing which plays a significant role…
BRUMS at SemEval-2020 Task 12 : Transformer based Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media
Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi
In this paper, we describe the team \textit{BRUMS} entry to OffensEval 2: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media in SemEval-2020. The OffensEval organizers…