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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.