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most citedDetection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey

607 citations · 650 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.IR2023★ 7 cited

Dataset of Natural Language Queries for E-Commerce

Andrea Papenmeier, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Hienert +3

Shopping online is more and more frequent in our everyday life. For e-commerce search systems, understanding natural language coming through voice assistants, chatbots or from conv…

cs.IR2023★ 9 cited

Starting Conversations with Search Engines -- Interfaces that Elicit Natural Language Queries

Andrea Papenmeier, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Hienert +3

Search systems on the Web rely on user input to generate relevant results. Since early information retrieval systems, users are trained to issue keyword searches and adapt to the l…

cs.SI2021★ 8 cited

Categorising Fine-to-Coarse Grained Misinformation: An Empirical Study of COVID-19 Infodemic

Ye Jiang, Xingyi Song, Carolina Scarton +2

The spreading COVID-19 misinformation over social media already draws the attention of many researchers. According to Google Scholar, about 26000 COVID-19 related misinformation st…

cs.HC2020★ 8 cited

'A Modern Up-To-Date Laptop' -- Vagueness in Natural Language Queries for Product Search

Andrea Papenmeier, Alfred Sliwa, Dagmar Kern +3

With the rise of voice assistants and an increase in mobile search usage, natural language has become an important query language. So far, most of the current systems are not able…

cs.IR2018

Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network

Jan Kowollik, Ahmet Aker

In this paper we present our system for the FEVER Challenge. The task of this challenge is to verify claims by extracting information from Wikipedia. Our system has two parts. In t…

cs.CL2017★ 11 cited

Simple Open Stance Classification for Rumour Analysis

Ahmet Aker, Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva

Stance classification determines the attitude, or stance, in a (typically short) text. The task has powerful applications, such as the detection of fake news or the automatic extra…

cs.CL2017

Gold Standard Online Debates Summaries and First Experiments Towards Automatic Summarization of Online Debate Data

Nattapong Sanchan, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva

Usage of online textual media is steadily increasing. Daily, more and more news stories, blog posts and scientific articles are added to the online volumes. These are all freely ac…

cs.CL2017

Automatic Summarization of Online Debates

Nattapong Sanchan, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva

Debate summarization is one of the novel and challenging research areas in automatic text summarization which has been largely unexplored. In this paper, we develop a debate summar…

cs.CL2017★ 607 cited

Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey

Arkaitz Zubiaga, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva +2

Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, i.e. pieces of i…