Classification of news spreading barriers

no code implementations • 10 Apr 2023 • Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik

News media is one of the most effective mechanisms for spreading information internationally, and many events from different areas are internationally relevant.

text-classification Text Classification

Profiling the news spreading barriers using news headlines

1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2023 • Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik

News headlines can be a good data source for detecting the news spreading barriers in news media, which may be useful in many real-world applications.

text-classification Text Classification

OEKG: The Open Event Knowledge Graph

no code implementations • 28 Feb 2023 • Simon Gottschalk, Endri Kacupaj, Sara Abdollahi, Diego Alves, Gabriel Amaral, Elisavet Koutsiana, Tin Kuculo, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Gullal S. Cheema, Abdul Sittar, Swati, Golsa Tahmasebzadeh, Gaurish Thakkar

Accessing and understanding contemporary and historical events of global impact such as the US elections and the Olympic Games is a major prerequisite for cross-lingual event analytics that investigate event causes, perception and consequences across country borders.

Image Retrieval Knowledge Graphs +5

Classification of Cross-cultural News Events

no code implementations • 13 Jan 2023 • Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic

We present a methodology to support the analysis of culture from text such as news events and demonstrate its usefulness on categorizing news events from different categories (society, business, health, recreation, science, shopping, sports, arts, computers, games and home) across different geographical locations (different places in 117 countries).

Classification Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Using the profile of publishers to predict barriers across news articles

1 code implementation • 13 Jan 2023 • Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic

Detection of news propagation barriers, being economical, cultural, political, time zonal, or geographical, is still an open research issue.

Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination

no code implementations • 15 Dec 2022 • Abdul Sittar, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik

The purpose of this study is to analyse COVID-19 related news published across different geographical places, in order to gain insights in reporting differences.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

Analysis of information cascading and propagation barriers across distinctive news events

no code implementations • 15 Dec 2022 • Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik

News reporting on events that occur in our society can have different styles and structures as well as different dynamics of news spreading over time.

MM-Claims: A Dataset for Multimodal Claim Detection in Social Media

1 code implementation • Findings (NAACL) 2022 • Gullal S. Cheema, Sherzod Hakimov, Abdul Sittar, Eric Müller-Budack, Christian Otto, Ralph Ewerth

In recent years, the problem of misinformation on the web has become widespread across languages, countries, and various social media platforms.

Fake News Detection Misinformation