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Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…
Team QCRI-MIT at SemEval-2019 Task 4: Propaganda Analysis Meets Hyperpartisan News Detection
Abdelrhman Saleh, Ramy Baly, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño +4
In this paper, we describe our submission to SemEval-2019 Task 4 on Hyperpartisan News Detection. Our system relies on a variety of engineered features originally used to detect pr…
Multi-Task Ordinal Regression for Jointly Predicting the Trustworthiness and the Leading Political Ideology of News Media
Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Abdelrhman Saleh +2
In the context of fake news, bias, and propaganda, we study two important but relatively under-explored problems: (i) trustworthiness estimation (on a 3-point scale) and (ii) polit…
Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources
Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Dimitar Alexandrov +2
We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of news media. While previous work has focused on studying the veracity of claims or documents, here we are in…
Finding People's Professions and Nationalities Using Distant Supervision - The FMI@SU "goosefoot" team at the WSDM Cup 2017 Triple Scoring Task
Valentin Zmiycharov, Dimitar Alexandrov, Preslav Nakov +2
We describe the system that our FMI@SU student's team built for participating in the Triple Scoring task at the WSDM Cup 2017. Given a triple from a "type-like" relation, professio…