SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity

no code implementations • SemEval (NAACL) 2022 • Xi Chen, Ali Zeynali, Chico Camargo, Fabian Flöck, Devin Gaffney, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Scott Hale, David Jurgens, Mattia Samory

Thousands of new news articles appear daily in outlets in different languages.

Tiplines to Combat Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: A Case Study of the 2019 Indian Election on WhatsApp

no code implementations • 8 Jun 2021 • Ashkan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Devin Gaffney, Scott A. Hale

There is currently no easy way to fact-check content on WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale.

Misinformation

Claim Matching Beyond English to Scale Global Fact-Checking

no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Ashkan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Devin Gaffney, Scott A. Hale

We train our own embedding model using knowledge distillation and a high-quality "teacher" model in order to address the imbalance in embedding quality between the low- and high-resource languages in our dataset.

Fact Checking Knowledge Distillation

Caveat Emptor, Computational Social Science: Large-Scale Missing Data in a Widely-Published Reddit Corpus

1 code implementation • 13 Mar 2018 • Devin Gaffney, J. Nathan Matias

We have discovered substantial gaps and limitations in this dataset which may contribute to bias in the findings of that research.

Social and Information Networks