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Team Alex at CLEF CheckThat! 2020: Identifying Check-Worthy Tweets With Transformer Models
Alex Nikolov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ivan Koychev +1
While misinformation and disinformation have been thriving in social media for years, with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the health misinformation merge…
SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles
G. Da San Martino, A. Barrón-Cedeño, H. Wachsmuth +2
We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is about Spa…
Can We Spot the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written?
Preslav Nakov
Given the recent proliferation of disinformation online, there has been also growing research interest in automatically debunking rumors, false claims, and "fake news." A number of…
aschern at SemEval-2020 Task 11: It Takes Three to Tango: RoBERTa, CRF, and Transfer Learning
Anton Chernyavskiy, Dmitry Ilvovsky, Preslav Nakov
We describe our system for SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We developed ensemble models using RoBERTa-based neural architectures, addit…
A Survey on Computational Propaganda Detection
Giovanni Da San Martino, Stefano Cresci, Alberto Barron-Cedeno +3
Propaganda campaigns aim at influencing people's mindset with the purpose of advancing a specific agenda. They exploit the anonymity of the Internet, the micro-profiling ability of…
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov +9
We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks com…