On Text-based Personality Computing: Challenges and Future Directions

no code implementations • 13 Dec 2022 • Qixiang Fang, Anastasia Giachanou, Ayoub Bagheri, Laura Boeschoten, Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Mahdi Shafiee Kamalabad, Daniel L Oberski

Text-based personality computing (TPC) has gained many research interests in NLP.

Ethics Fairness +1

Modelling Stance Detection as Textual Entailment Recognition and Leveraging Measurement Knowledge from Social Sciences

no code implementations • 13 Dec 2022 • Qixiang Fang, Anastasia Giachanou, Ayoub Bagheri

Stance detection (SD) can be considered a special case of textual entailment recognition (TER), a generic natural language task.

Natural Language Inference Stance Detection

Studying Fake News Spreading, Polarisation Dynamics, and Manipulation by Bots: a Tale of Networks and Language

no code implementations • 13 Sep 2021 • Giancarlo Ruffo, Alfonso Semeraro, Anastasia Giachanou, Paolo Rosso

With the explosive growth of online social media, the ancient problem of information disorders interfering with news diffusion has surfaced with a renewed intensity threatening our democracies, public health, and news outlets' credibility.

Misinformation Rumour Detection

PRHLT-UPV at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Study of Multimodal Techniques for Memes Analysis

no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2020 • Gretel Liz De la Pe{\~n}a Sarrac{\'e}n, Paolo Rosso, Anastasia Giachanou

The BERT model is used to process the textual information and VGG the images.

Sentiment Analysis

USI-IR at IEST 2018: Sequence Modeling and Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Implicit Emotion Detection

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Esteban R{\'\i}ssola, Anastasia Giachanou, Fabio Crestani

This paper describes the participation of USI-IR in WASSA 2018 Implicit Emotion Shared Task.

Emotion Recognition General Classification +2

Comparative Opinion Mining: A Review

no code implementations • 24 Dec 2017 • Kasturi Dewi Varathan, Anastasia Giachanou, Fabio Crestani

Opinion mining, also known as sentiment analysis, has received a lot of attention in recent times, as it provides a number of tools to analyse the public opinion on a number of different topics.

Opinion Mining Sentiment Analysis