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Directed Social Regard: Surfacing Targeted Advocacy, Opposition, Aid, Harms, and Victimization in Online Media
Scott Friedman, Ruta Wheelock, Sonja Schmer-Galunder +6
The language in online platforms, influence operations, and political rhetoric frequently directs a mix of pro-social sentiment (e.g., advocacy, helpfulness, compassion) and anti-s…
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…
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…
ExU: AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread
Jake Vasilakes, Zhixue Zhao, Ivan Vykopal +3
Addressing online disinformation requires analysing narratives across languages to help fact-checkers and journalists sift through large amounts of data. The ExU project focuses on…