Computer Science & Engineering
Recent Submissions
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Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Microblogging platforms and Twitter specifically have become a major resource for exploring diverse topics of interest that vary from the world's breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion and even ... -
Exploiting Live Feedback for Tweet Real-time Push Notifications
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2017 , Conference Paper)Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post diverse information. Although a user would regularly check her Twitter timeline to stay up-to-date on her topics ... -
QU at TREC-2015: Building Real-Time Systems for Tweet Filtering and Question Answering
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2015 , Conference Paper)This paper presents our participation in the microblog and LiveQA tracks in TREC-2015. Both tracks required building a "real-time" system that monitors a data stream and responds to users' information needs in real-time. ... -
Ontology-based model in tourism context-aware systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2013 , Conference Paper)Different approaches have been used to model contextual information in context-aware systems. Comparing to other models, ontology-based modeling offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 checkthat! lab on automatic identification and verification of political claims
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. In its starting year, the lab featured two tasks. Task 1 asked to predict which (potential) claims ... -
IDRISI-RE: A generalizable dataset with benchmarks for location mention recognition on disaster tweets
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)While utilizing Twitter data for crisis management is of interest to different response authorities, a critical challenge that hinders the utilization of such data is the scarcity of automated tools that extract geolocation ... -
When a disaster happens, we are ready: Location mention recognition from crisis tweets
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article Review)Geolocation information is important for humanitarian organizations to gain situational awareness and deliver timely aid during disasters. Towards addressing the problem of recognizing locations, i.e., Location Mention ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 2: Factuality
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 2: Factuality. The task asked to assess whether a given check-worthy claim made ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 1: Check-Worthiness. The task asks to predict which claims in a political debate ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020 English: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( CEUR-WS , 2020 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in Arabic and English, and here we focus on the three English tasks. Task 1 challenged the participants to predict ... -
IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference Paper)Extracting geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, in locating incidents for planning rescue activities, and affected people for ... -
Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The widespread usage of Twitter during emergencies has provided a new opportunity and timely resource to crisis responders for various disaster management tasks. Geolocation information of pertinent tweets is crucial for ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020 Arabic: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( CEUR-WS , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we present an overview of the Arabic tasks of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured three Arabic tasks over social media (and the Web): Task 1 on check-worthiness estimation, ... -
ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper we introduce ArCOV19-Rumors, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset for misinformation detection composed of tweets containing claims from 27th January till the end of April 2020. We collected 138 verified claims, ... -
An Ontology-Based Context-Aware Mobile System for On-the-Move Tourists
( Springer Verlag , 2013 , Conference Paper)Ontology-based model in context-aware systems offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It supports reasoning tasks in a better way than other approaches. However, the main concern with ontology ... -
Time-critical geolocation for social good
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)Twitter has become an instrumental source of news in emergencies where efficient access, dissemination of information, and immediate reactions are critical. Nevertheless, due to several challenges, the current fully-automated ... -
Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)Query expansion (QE) using pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) is one of the approaches that has been shown to be effective for improving microblog retrieval. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three different ... -
CheckThat! at CLEF 2019: Automatic identification and verification of claims
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)We introduce the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2019 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes two complementary tasks. Task 1: predict which claims in a political debate should be ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2020 , Conference Paper)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 compose the full pipeline of claim verification ... -
CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the automatic identification and verification of claims in social media
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the 2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in ...