Browsing Academic by Author "Ali, Zien Sheikh"
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AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally-Occurring Professionally-Verified Claims
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference)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 ... -
Detecting Users Prone to Spread Fake News on Arabic Twitter
( European Language Resources Association , 2022 , Conference)The spread of misinformation has become a major concern to our society, and social media is one of its main culprits. Evidently, health misinformation related to vaccinations has slowed down global efforts to fight the ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on check-worthiness estimation in tweets and political debates
( CEUR-WS , 2021 , Conference)We present an overview of Task 1 of the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The task asks to predict which posts in a Twitter stream are worth ... -
Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference)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, ... -
Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2023 , Conference)Over the past years, notable progress has been made towards fighting misinformation spread over social media, encouraging the development of many fact-checking systems. However, systems that operate over Arabic content are ...