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What questions do journalists ask on Twitter?
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AI Access Foundation
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Social media platforms are a major source of information for both the general public and for journalists. Journalists use Twitter and other social media services to gather story ideas, to find eyewitnesses, and for a wide ...
EveTAR: A new test collection for event detection in Arabic tweets
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Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Research on event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of publicly-available evaluation mechanisms such as test collections; this problem is more severe when considering the scarcity of them in languages ...
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 ...
Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Microblogging platforms and Twitter specifically have become a major resource for exploring diverse topics of interest that vary from the world's breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion and even ...
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, ...
ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
In this paper we introduce ArCOV19-Rumors, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset for misinformation detection composed of tweets containing claims from 27th January till the end of April 2020. We collected 138 verified claims, ...