739 citations · 764 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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cs.CL2017★ 25 cited
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…
cs.SI2015★ 739 cited
Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter +2
As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new i…