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The Alignment Bottleneck in Decomposition-Based Claim Verification
Mahmud Elahi Akhter, Federico Ruggeri, Iman Munire Bilal +2
Structured claim decomposition is often proposed as a solution for verifying complex, multi-faceted claims, yet empirical results have been inconsistent. We argue that these incons…
Machine Learning Information Retrieval and Summarisation to Support Systematic Review on Outcomes Based Contracting
Iman Munire Bilal, Zheng Fang, Miguel Arana-Catania +6
As academic literature proliferates, traditional review methods are increasingly challenged by the sheer volume and diversity of available research. This article presents a study t…
Generating Zero-shot Abstractive Explanations for Rumour Verification
Iman Munire Bilal, Preslav Nakov, Rob Procter +1
The task of rumour verification in social media concerns assessing the veracity of a claim on the basis of conversation threads that result from it. While previous work has focused…
Sig-Networks Toolkit: Signature Networks for Longitudinal Language Modelling
Talia Tseriotou, Ryan Sze-Yin Chan, Adam Tsakalidis +4
We present an open-source, pip installable toolkit, Sig-Networks, the first of its kind for longitudinal language modelling. A central focus is the incorporation of Signature-based…
Unsupervised Opinion Summarisation in the Wasserstein Space
Jiayu Song, Iman Munire Bilal, Adam Tsakalidis +2
Opinion summarisation synthesises opinions expressed in a group of documents discussing the same topic to produce a single summary. Recent work has looked at opinion summarisation…
Evaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs
Iman Munire Bilal, Bo Wang, Maria Liakata +2
Collecting together microblogs representing opinions about the same topics within the same timeframe is useful to a number of different tasks and practitioners. A major question is…