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Are authorities denying or supporting? Detecting stance of authorities towards rumors in Twitter
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Several studies examined the leverage of the stance in conversational threads or news articles as a signal for rumor verification. However, none of these studies leveraged the stance of trusted authorities. In this work, ... -
The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference)The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been ... -
Arabic machine reading comprehension on the Holy Qur'an using CL-AraBERT
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)In this work, we tackle the problem of machine reading comprehension (MRC) on the Holy Qur'an to address the lack of Arabic datasets and systems for this important task. We construct QRCD as the first Qur'anic Reading ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on detecting previously fact-checked claims in tweets and political debates
( CEUR-WS , 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 three tasks related to factuality, and it covers Arabic, ... -
Studying effectiveness of Web search for fact checking
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2022 , Article)Web search is commonly used by fact checking systems as a source of evidence for claim verification. In this work, we demonstrate that the task of retrieving pages useful for fact checking, called evidential pages, is ... -
Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers
( International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence , 2021 , Conference)The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians and other key players enjoy direct access ... -
ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference)In this paper, we present ArCOV-19, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset that spans one year, covering the period from 27th of January 2020 till 31st of January 2021. ArCOV-19 is the first publicly-available Arabic Twitter ... -
Qur'an QA 2022: Overview of The First Shared Task on Question Answering over the Holy Qur'an
( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2022 , Conference)Motivated by the resurgence of the machine reading comprehension (MRC) research, we have organized the first Qur'an Question Answering shared task,"Qur'an QA 2022". The task in its first year aims to promote state-of-the-art ... -
bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2021 , Conference)In this paper, we present the participation of the bigIR team at Qatar University in the TREC 2021 news track. We participated in the background linking task. The task mainly aims to retrieve news articles that provide ... -
Preface : 5th Workshop Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks on Qur'an QA and Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection, OSACT 2022 - Proceedings at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2022 , Other)Given the success of the first, second, third, and fourth workshops on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools (OSACT) in LREC 2014, LREC 2016, LREC 2018, and LREC 2020, the fifth workshop comes to encourage ... -
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 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various tasks related to factuality, and it is offered in Arabic, ... -
Adaptive method for following dynamic topics on twitter
( The AAAI Press , 2014 , Conference)Many research social studies of public response on social media require following (i.e., tracking) topics on Twitter for long periods of time. The current approaches rely on streaming tweets based on some hashtags or ... -
Improving tweet timeline generation by predicting optimal retrieval depth
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)Tweet Timeline Generation (TTG) systems provide users with informative and concise summaries of topics, as they developed over time, in a retrospective manner. In order to produce a tweet timeline that constitutes a summary ... -
Query performance prediction for microblog search: A preliminary study
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2014 , Conference)Microblogging has recently become an integral part of the daily life of millions of people around the world. With a continuous flood of posts, microblogging services (e.g., Twitter) have to effectively handle millions of ... -
QU at TREC-2014: Online Clustering with Temporal and Topical Expansion for Tweet Timeline Generation
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2014 , Conference)In this work, we present our participation in the microblog track in TREC-2014, building upon our first participation last year. We present our approaches for the two tasks of this year: temporally-anchored ad-hoc search ... -
Detecting automatically-generated Arabic tweets
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference)Recently, Twitter, one of the most widely-known social media platforms, got infiltrated by several automation programs, commonly known as "bots". Bots can be easily abused to spread spam and hinder information extraction ... -
Identification of answer-seeking questions in Arabic microblogs
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2014 , Conference)Over the past years, Twitter has earned a growing reputation as a hub for communication, and events advertisement and tracking. However, several recent research studies have shown that Twitter users (and microblogging ... -
QU-BIGIR at SemEval 2017 Task 3: Using Similarity Features for Arabic Community Question Answering Forums
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2017 , Conference)In this paper, we describe our QU-BIGIR system for the Arabic subtask D of the SemEval 2017 Task 3. Our approach builds on our participation in the past version of the same subtask. This year, our system uses different ... -
Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference)Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the recent years with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ... -
QweetFinder: Real-time finding and filtering of question tweets
( Springer Verlag , 2017 , Conference)Users continuously ask questions and seek answers in social media platforms such as Twitter. In this demo, we present Qweet-Finder, a Web-based search engine that facilitates finding question tweets (Qweets) in Twitter. ...
