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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…
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…
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…
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…