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The integration of social media in the delivery of unit materials: A comparative examination of the experience of Macquarie University and Qatar University
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IEEE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Social media is an important technological and cultural development with which the new generation of students are intimately familiar and use on a daily basis. As a communications tool social media has vast and varied ...
BroDyn'18: Workshop on analysis of broad dynamic topics over social media
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CEUR-WS
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Social media streams are flooded with posts related to topics that are broad (i.e., cover several sub-topics) and dynamic (i.e., develop over time) which attract long-standing user interests. Posts about topics like "Brexit" ...
Tweet sentiment analysis with pronoun choice reveals online community dynamics in response to crisis events
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Springer Verlag
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
We describe the emergence of an online community from naturally occurring social media data. Our method uses patterns of word choice in an online social platform to characterize how a community forms in response to adverse ...
The evolution of scholarly digital library needs in an international environment: Social reference management systems and Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Qatar has become an active research producer of data, publications, and other scholarly works. We studied the evolving scholarly activities and needs of researchers in this relatively new research environment, and compared ...
Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification
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Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
, 2023 , Conference Paper)
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 ...
CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the automatic identification and verification of claims in social media
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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 ...
Overview of CheckThat! 2020 Arabic: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
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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, ...