no code implementations • 25 Sep 2021 • Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Giovanni Da San Martino, Pepa Atanasova
We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat!
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed, Hassan Sajjad
For example, results show that, for training a location mention recognition model, Twitter-based data is preferred over general-purpose data; and crisis-related data is preferred over general-purpose Twitter data.
no code implementations • EACL (WANLP) 2021 • Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed
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.
3 code implementations • 15 Jul 2020 • Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari, Nikolay Babulkov, Bayan Hamdan, Alex Nikolov, Shaden Shaar, Zien Sheikh Ali
The first four tasks compose the full pipeline of claim verification in social media: Task 1 on check-worthiness estimation, Task 2 on retrieving previously fact-checked claims, Task 3 on evidence retrieval, and Task 4 on claim verification.
1 code implementation • EACL (WANLP) 2021 • Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed
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.
3 code implementations • 21 Jan 2020 • Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari
Finally, the lab offers a fifth task that asks to predict the check-worthiness of the claims made in English political debates and speeches.