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most citedAnalysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads

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cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Generalizing Political Leaning Inference to Multi-Party Systems: Insights from the UK Political Landscape

Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rodrigo Agerri

An ability to infer the political leaning of social media users can help in gathering opinion polls thereby leading to a better understanding of public opinion. While there has bee…

cs.CL2023

Towards Faithful Knowledge Graph Explanation Through Deep Alignment in Commonsense Question Answering

Weihe Zhai, Arkaitz Zubiaga

The fusion of language models (LMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs) is widely used in commonsense question answering, but generating faithful explanations remains challenging. Current m…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

Some Observations on Fact-Checking Work with Implications for Computational Support

Rob Procter, Miguel Arana-Catania, Yulan He +4

Social media and user-generated content (UGC) have become increasingly important features of journalistic work in a number of different ways. However, the growth of misinformation…

cs.CL2023

PANACEA: An Automated Misinformation Detection System on COVID-19

Runcong Zhao, Miguel Arana-Catania, Lixing Zhu +6

In this demo, we introduce a web-based misinformation detection system PANACEA on COVID-19 related claims, which has two modules, fact-checking and rumour detection. Our fact-check…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Cluster-based Deep Ensemble Learning for Emotion Classification in Internet Memes

Xiaoyu Guo, Jing Ma, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Memes have gained popularity as a means to share visual ideas through the Internet and social media by mixing text, images and videos, often for humorous purposes. Research enablin…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

NUAA-QMUL-AIIT at Memotion 3: Multi-modal Fusion with Squeeze-and-Excitation for Internet Meme Emotion Analysis

Xiaoyu Guo, Jing Ma, Arkaitz Zubiaga

This paper describes the participation of our NUAA-QMUL-AIIT team in the Memotion 3 shared task on meme emotion analysis. We propose a novel multi-modal fusion method, Squeeze-and-…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

AnnoBERT: Effectively Representing Multiple Annotators' Label Choices to Improve Hate Speech Detection

Wenjie Yin, Vibhor Agarwal, Aiqi Jiang +2

Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, it is hard to achieve high agreement among annotators in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection. Exi…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Few-shot Learning for Cross-Target Stance Detection by Aggregating Multimodal Embeddings

Parisa Jamadi Khiabani, Arkaitz Zubiaga

Despite the increasing popularity of the stance detection task, existing approaches are predominantly limited to using the textual content of social media posts for the classificat…