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ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference Paper)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 ... -
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 Paper)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 ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 5 on Authority Finding in Twitter
( CEUR-WS , 2023 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of Task 5 of the sixth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is a part of the 2023 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this Authority Finding task, participating systems are required ... -
bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2021 , Conference Paper)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-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference Paper)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 ... -
IDRISI-D: Arabic and English Datasets and Benchmarks for Location Mention Disambiguation over Disaster Microblogs
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference Paper)Extracting and disambiguating geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, locating incidents for planning rescue activities and ... -
Who can verify this? Finding authorities for rumor verification in Twitter
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)A large body of research work has proposed verification techniques for rumors spreading in social media that mainly relied on subjective evidence, e.g., propagation networks or user interactions. Alternatively, in this ... -
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, ... -
Improving conversational search with query reformulation using selective contextual history
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Automated responses to questions for conversational agents, known as conversation passage retrieval, is challenging due to omissions and implied context in user queries. To help address this challenge, queries can be ... -
Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news background linking
( PeerJ Inc. , 2023 , Article)In this article, we study efficient techniques to tackle the news background linking problem, in which an online reader seeks background knowledge about a given article to better understand its context. Recently, this ... -
Improved pediatric ICU mortality prediction for respiratory diseases: machine learning and data subdivision insights
( BioMed Central Ltd , 2024 , Article)The growing concern of pediatric mortality demands heightened preparedness in clinical settings, especially within intensive care units (ICUs). As respiratory-related admissions account for a substantial portion of pediatric ... -
On Accommodating VR Traffic for mHealth Applications in Rural Areas with Limited Impact on IoT Traffic
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper investigates radio resource management for internet of things (IoT) networks with application to bandwidth constrained scenarios, e.g., in rural and under-privileged areas. An algorithm for efficient IoT resource ... -
Quantifying Empathy in Virtual Reality: An Outline
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of the research undertaken hitherto on quantifying empathy in virtual reality (VR). In this paper we have discussed various methodologies used for testing the impact on ... -
Combating jamming attacks in multi-channel IoT networks using game theory
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference Paper)Jamming attacks are among the most widely used techniques to block and disturb legitimate communications. Several techniques are used in the literature to combat these attacks. However, most of them either require the ... -
Physical Layer Anti-jamming Technique Using Massive Planar Antenna Arrays
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference Paper)Wirelessly connected devices play a vital role in people's daily life, especially with the significant rise in the number of devices connected to the Internet and the huge data being generated everyday. However, the open ... -
IoT Anti-Jamming Strategy Using Game Theory and Neural Network
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference Paper)The internet of things (IoT) is one of the most exposed networks to attackers due to its widespread and its heterogeneity. In such networks, jamming attacks are widely used by malicious users to compromise the private and ... -
On the Use of Quantum Communications for Securing IoT Devices in the 6G Era
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2021 , Conference Paper)The Internet of Things (IoT) connects billions of machines that can interact with each other. IoT is one of the fastest-growing areas in the history of computing, and will continue in this direction in the 6G era. New ... -
6G Connectivity in Dense Indoor Environments using Beamforming and Frequency Allocation over IEEE 802.11ad
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2021 , Conference Paper)The upcoming 6G network is expected to support high data rate services combining the requirements of the 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) use cases, typically ...
