no code implementations • 10 Aug 2023 • Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Xingyi Song, Kalina Bontcheva
The task of retrieving already debunked narratives aims to detect stories that have already been fact-checked.
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2023 • Yida Mu, Ye Jiang, Freddy Heppell, Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
This motivated us to carry out a comparative study of the characteristics of COVID-19 misinformation versus those of accurate COVID-19 information through a large-scale computational analysis of over 242 million tweets.
1 code implementation • SemEval (NAACL) 2022 • Iknoor Singh, Yue Li, Melissa Thong, Carolina Scarton
This paper describes the second-placed system on the leaderboard of SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual News Article Similarity.
no code implementations • NAACL 2021 • Kokil Jaidka, Andrea Ceolin, Iknoor Singh, Niyati Chhaya, Lyle Ungar
We show how the data supports the classic understanding of style matching, where positive emotion and the use of first-person pronouns predict a positive emotional change in a Wikipedia contributor.
1 code implementation • 8 Jan 2021 • Iknoor Singh, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a rapidly growing 'infodemic' of health information online.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2020 • Xingyi Song, Johann Petrak, Ye Jiang, Iknoor Singh, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
The explosion of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic has overloaded fact-checkers and media worldwide, and brought a new major challenge to government responses worldwide.
1 code implementation • 26 Jun 2019 • Iknoor Singh, Deepak P, Anoop K
The generation and spread of fake news within new and online media sources is emerging as a phenomenon of high societal significance.