6 papers
Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News
Tarek Mahmoud, Veronika Solopova, Premtim Sahitaj +7
Temporal language does more than place events on a timeline. In news discourse, references to the past, present, and future can function as rhetorical devices that shape interpreta…
Fine-tuning with Hierarchical Prompting for Robust Propaganda Classification Across Annotation Schemas
Lukas Stähelin, Veronika Solopova, Max Upravitelev +6
Propaganda detection in social media is challenging due to noisy, short texts and low annotation agreements. We introduce a new intent-focused taxonomy of propaganda techniques and…
From Articles to Premises: Building PrimeFacts, an Extraction Methodology and Resource for Fact-Checking Evidence
Premtim Sahitaj, Jawan Kolanowski, Ariana Sahitaj +7
Fact-checking articles encode rich supporting evidence and reasoning, yet this evidence remains largely inaccessible to automated verification systems due to unstructured presentat…
Retrieving Climate Change Disinformation by Narrative
Max Upravitelev, Veronika Solopova, Charlott Jakob +3
Detecting climate disinformation narratives typically relies on fixed taxonomies, which do not accommodate emerging narratives. Thus, we re-frame narrative detection as a retrieval…
ClimateCheck 2026: Scientific Fact-Checking and Disinformation Narrative Classification of Climate-related Claims
Raia Abu Ahmad, Max Upravitelev, Aida Usmanova +2
Automatically verifying climate-related claims against scientific literature is a challenging task, complicated by the specialised nature of scholarly evidence and the diversity of…
Multiperspectivity as a Resource for Narrative Similarity Prediction
Max Upravitelev, Veronika Solopova, Jing Yang +4
Predicting narrative similarity can be understood as an inherently interpretive task: different, equally valid readings of the same text can produce divergent interpretations and t…