Search Results for author: Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Found 23 papers, 5 papers with code

LeaningTower@LT-EDI-ACL2022: When Hope and Hate Collide

no code implementations LTEDI (ACL) 2022 Arianna Muti, Marta Marchiori Manerba, Katerina Korre, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Task Hope Speech Detection required models for the automatic identification of hopeful comments for equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Active Learning Hope Speech Detection

Misogyny and Aggressiveness Tend to Come Together and Together We Address Them

no code implementations LREC 2022 Arianna Muti, Francesco Fernicola, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

We target the complementary binary tasks of identifying whether a tweet is misogynous and, if that is the case, whether it is also aggressive.

Binary Classification

A Checkpoint on Multilingual Misogyny Identification

no code implementations ACL 2022 Arianna Muti, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

We address the problem of identifying misogyny in tweets in mono and multilingual settings in three languages: English, Italian, and Spanish.

Transfer Learning Zero-Shot Learning

Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers

no code implementations13 Mar 2021 Preslav Nakov, David Corney, Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Papotti, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino

The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism.

Fact Checking

Tailoring and Evaluating the Wikipedia for in-Domain Comparable Corpora Extraction

1 code implementation3 May 2020 Cristina España-Bonet, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Lluís Màrquez

Our best metric for domainness shows a strong correlation with the human-judged precision, representing a reasonable automatic alternative to assess the quality of domain-specific corpora.

Retrieval

A Context-Aware Approach for Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Political Debates

no code implementations14 Dec 2019 Pepa Gencheva, Ivan Koychev, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Preslav Nakov

In the context of investigative journalism, we address the problem of automatically identifying which claims in a given document are most worthy and should be prioritized for fact-checking.

Fact Checking

Proppy: A System to Unmask Propaganda in Online News

no code implementations14 Dec 2019 Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Israa Jaradat, Preslav Nakov

We present proppy, the first publicly available real-world, real-time propaganda detection system for online news, which aims at raising awareness, thus potentially limiting the impact of propaganda and helping fight disinformation.

Propaganda detection

Global Thread-Level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering

no code implementations EMNLP 2015 Shafiq Joty, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Simone Filice, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov

Community question answering, a recent evolution of question answering in the Web context, allows a user to quickly consult the opinion of a number of people on a particular topic, thus taking advantage of the wisdom of the crowd.

Community Question Answering General Classification

Findings of the NLP4IF-2019 Shared Task on Fine-Grained Propaganda Detection

no code implementations WS 2019 Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Preslav Nakov

FLC is a fragment-level task that asks for the identification of propagandist text fragments in a news article and also for the prediction of the specific propaganda technique used in each such fragment (18-way classification task).

Binary Classification General Classification +2

Automatic Fact-Checking Using Context and Discourse Information

1 code implementation4 Aug 2019 Pepa Atanasova, Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Georgi Karadzhov, Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Mitra Mohtarami, James Glass

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attention to the impact of contextual and discourse information.

Fact Checking

Studying the History of the Arabic Language: Language Technology and a Large-Scale Historical Corpus

1 code implementation11 Sep 2018 Yonatan Belinkov, Alexander Magidow, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Avi Shmidman, Maxim Romanov

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a long and rich history, but existing corpora and language technology focus mostly on modern Arabic and its varieties.

An Empirical Analysis of NMT-Derived Interlingual Embeddings and their Use in Parallel Sentence Identification

no code implementations18 Apr 2017 Cristina España-Bonet, Ádám Csaba Varga, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Josef van Genabith

First, we systematically study the NMT context vectors, i. e. output of the encoder, and their power as an interlingua representation of a sentence.

Machine Translation NMT +3

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