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cs.IR2017★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2017

Building Chatbots from Forum Data: Model Selection Using Question Answering Metrics

Martin Boyanov, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov +2

We propose to use question answering (QA) data from Web forums to train chatbots from scratch, i.e., without dialog training data. First, we extract pairs of question and answer se…

cs.CL2017★ 5 cited

Fully Automated Fact Checking Using External Sources

Georgi Karadzhov, Preslav Nakov, Lluis Marquez +2

Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in recent years, there has been also a growing research interest in automatically distinguishing false rumors from…

cs.CL2017

The Case for Being Average: A Mediocrity Approach to Style Masking and Author Obfuscation

Georgi Karadjov, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Yasen Kiprov +3

Users posting online expect to remain anonymous unless they have logged in, which is often needed for them to be able to discuss freely on various topics. Preserving the anonymity…

cs.CL2017

Large-Scale Goodness Polarity Lexicons for Community Question Answering

Todor Mihaylov, Daniel Belchev, Yasen Kiprov +2

We transfer a key idea from the field of sentiment analysis to a new domain: community question answering (cQA). The cQA task we are interested in is the following: given a questio…