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Generating Zero-shot Abstractive Explanations for Rumour Verification
Iman Munire Bilal, Preslav Nakov, Rob Procter +1
The task of rumour verification in social media concerns assessing the veracity of a claim on the basis of conversation threads that result from it. While previous work has focused…
NewsQuote: A Dataset Built on Quote Extraction and Attribution for Expert Recommendation in Fact-Checking
Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter +1
To enhance the ability to find credible evidence in news articles, we propose a novel task of expert recommendation, which aims to identify trustworthy experts on a specific news t…
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…
A User-Centered, Interactive, Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modelling System
Zheng Fang, Lama Alqazlan, Du Liu +2
Human-in-the-loop topic modelling incorporates users' knowledge into the modelling process, enabling them to refine the model iteratively. Recent research has demonstrated the valu…
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…
A Pipeline for Generating, Annotating and Employing Synthetic Data for Real World Question Answering
Matthew Maufe, James Ravenscroft, Rob Procter +1
Question Answering (QA) is a growing area of research, often used to facilitate the extraction of information from within documents. State-of-the-art QA models are usually pre-trai…