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Tracking the Diffusion of Named Entities
Leon Derczynski, Matthew Rowe
Existing studies of how information diffuses across social networks have thus far concentrated on analysing and recovering the spread of deterministic innovations such as URLs, has…
Simple Open Stance Classification for Rumour Analysis
Ahmet Aker, Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva
Stance classification determines the attitude, or stance, in a (typically short) text. The task has powerful applications, such as the detection of fake news or the automatic extra…
SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours
Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva, Maria Liakata +3
Media is full of false claims. Even Oxford Dictionaries named "post-truth" as the word of 2016. This makes it more important than ever to build systems that can identify the veraci…
Generalisation in Named Entity Recognition: A Quantitative Analysis
Isabelle Augenstein, Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a key NLP task, which is all the more challenging on Web and user-generated content with their diverse and continuously changing language. This pa…