4 papers
SCRum-9: Multilingual Stance Classification over Rumours on Social Media
Yue Li, Jake Vasilakes, Zhixue Zhao +1
We introduce SCRum-9, the largest multilingual Stance Classification dataset for Rumour analysis in 9 languages, containing 7,516 tweets from X. SCRum-9 goes beyond existing stance…
Efficient Annotator Reliability Assessment with EffiARA
Owen Cook, Jake Vasilakes, Ian Roberts +1
Data annotation is an essential component of the machine learning pipeline; it is also a costly and time-consuming process. With the introduction of transformer-based models, annot…
Subjective Logic Encodings
Jake Vasilakes, Chrysoula Zerva, Sophia Ananiadou
Many existing approaches for learning from labeled data assume the existence of gold-standard labels. According to these approaches, inter-annotator disagreement is seen as noise t…
Exploring Vision Language Models for Multimodal and Multilingual Stance Detection
Jake Vasilakes, Carolina Scarton, Zhixue Zhao
Social media's global reach amplifies the spread of information, highlighting the need for robust Natural Language Processing tasks like stance detection across languages and modal…