Automated fact-checking for assisting human fact-checkers

P Nakov, D Corney, M Hasanain, F Alam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
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 …

SemEval-2020 task 11: Detection of propaganda techniques in news articles

G Martino, A Barrón-Cedeno, H Wachsmuth… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of
Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is …

SemEval-2021 task 6: Detection of persuasion techniques in texts and images

D Dimitrov, BB Ali, S Shaar, F Alam, F Silvestri… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021‏ - arxiv.org
We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and
Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the …

That is a known lie: Detecting previously fact-checked claims

S Shaar, GDS Martino, N Babulkov, P Nakov - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
The recent proliferation of" fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably
the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a large …

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic: Modeling the perspective of journalists, fact-checkers, social media platforms, policy makers, and the society

F Alam, S Shaar, F Dalvi, H Sajjad, A Nikolov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of
disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first …

The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-worthiness, subjectivity, persuasion, roles, authorities, and adversarial robustness

A Barrón-Cedeño, F Alam, T Chakraborty… - … on Information Retrieval, 2024‏ - Springer
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 …

Overview of the clef–2022 checkthat! lab on fighting the covid-19 infodemic and fake news detection

P Nakov, A Barrón-Cedeño, G da San Martino… - … conference of the cross …, 2022‏ - Springer
We describe the fifth edition of the CheckThat! lab, part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to …

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media: A holistic perspective and a call to arms

F Alam, F Dalvi, S Shaar, N Durrani… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - ojs.aaai.org
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to
share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories …

The clef-2023 checkthat! lab: Checkworthiness, subjectivity, political bias, factuality, and authority

A Barrón-Cedeño, F Alam, T Caselli… - European conference on …, 2023‏ - Springer
The five editions of the CheckThat! lab so far have focused on the main tasks of the
information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and …

The clef-2022 checkthat! lab on fighting the covid-19 infodemic and fake news detection

P Nakov, A Barrón-Cedeño, G Da San Martino… - European conference on …, 2022‏ - Springer
The fifth edition of the CheckThat! Lab is held as part of the 2022 Conference and Labs of
the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various factuality …