• AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally-Occurring Professionally-Verified Claims 

      Ali, Zien Sheikh; Mansour, Watheq; Elsayed, Tamer; Al-Ali, Abdulaziz ( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We introduce AraFacts, the first large Arabic dataset of naturally-occurring claims collected from 5 Arabic fact-checking websites, e.g., Fatabyyano and Misbar, covering claims since 2016. Our dataset consists of 6,222 ...
    • Did I See It Before? Detecting Previously-Checked Claims over Twitter 

      Mansour, Watheq; Elsayed, Tamer; Al-Ali, Abdulaziz ( springer link , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      With the proliferation of fake news in the last few years, especially during the COVID-19 period, combating the spread of misinformation has become an urgent need. Although automated fact-checking systems were proposed ...
    • DID I SEE IT BEFORE? RETRIEVING PREVIOUSLY CHECKED CLAIMS OVER TWITTER 

      MANSOUR,WATHEQ AHMAD (2022 , Master Thesis)
      With the proliferation of fake news in the last few years, especially during COVID- 19, combating the spread of misinformation has become a social and political urgent need. Fact-checkers and journalists need to identify ...
    • Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News 

      Nakov, Preslav; Da San Martino, Giovanni; Elsayed, Tamer; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Míguez, Rubén; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to factuality, and covers Arabic, Bulgarian, ...
    • SafeDrive: A Reliable and Secure Distributed Cloud Storage 

      Mansour, Watheq Ahmad; Malluhi, Qutaibah M. ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)
      SafeDrive is an efficient, reliable, and secure multi-cloudfile storage system that keeps data safe and accessible even if you do not fully trust the service provider, whose systems can be compromised or become unavailable. ...