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most citedPredicting Sentence-Level Factuality of News and Bias of Media Outlets

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cs.CL2025

Aligning Attention with Human Rationales for Self-Explaining Hate Speech Detection

Brage Eilertsen, Røskva Bjørgfinsdóttir, Francielle Vargas +1

The opaque nature of deep learning models presents significant challenges for the ethical deployment of hate speech detection systems. To address this limitation, we introduce Supe…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Predicting Sentence-Level Factuality of News and Bias of Media Outlets

Francielle Vargas, Kokil Jaidka, Thiago A. S. Pardo +1

Automated news credibility and fact-checking at scale require accurately predicting news factuality and media bias. This paper introduces a large sentence-level dataset, titled "Fa…

cs.CL2022

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…

cs.CL2021

Contextual-Lexicon Approach for Abusive Language Detection

Francielle Vargas, Fabiana Rodrigues de Góes, Isabelle Carvalho +2

Since a lexicon-based approach is more elegant scientifically, explaining the solution components and being easier to generalize to other applications, this paper provides a new ap…

cs.CL2021

Identifying Offensive Expressions of Opinion in Context

Francielle Alves Vargas, Isabelle Carvalho, Fabiana Rodrigues de Góes

Classic information extraction techniques consist in building questions and answers about the facts. Indeed, it is still a challenge to subjective information extraction systems to…

cs.CL2021

HateBR: A Large Expert Annotated Corpus of Brazilian Instagram Comments for Offensive Language and Hate Speech Detection

Francielle Alves Vargas, Isabelle Carvalho, Fabiana Rodrigues de Góes +2

Due to the severity of the social media offensive and hateful comments in Brazil, and the lack of research in Portuguese, this paper provides the first large-scale expert annotated…