no code implementations • 24 Mar 2024 • Yida Mu, Chun Dong, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Topic modelling, as a well-established unsupervised technique, has found extensive use in automatically detecting significant topics within a corpus of documents.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2023 • Ben Wu, Yue Li, Yida Mu, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
In this paper, we address the limitations of the common data annotation and training methods for objective single-label classification tasks.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2023 • Mali Jin, Yida Mu, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
The use of abusive language online has become an increasingly pervasive problem that damages both individuals and society, with effects ranging from psychological harm right through to escalation to real-life violence and even death.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2023 • Yida Mu, Xingyi Song, Kalina Bontcheva, Nikolaos Aletras
A crucial aspect of a rumor detection model is its ability to generalize, particularly its ability to detect emerging, previously unknown rumors.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Tianyu Liang, Yida Mu, Soonho Kim, Darline Larissa Kengne Kuate, Julie Lang, Rob Vos, Xingyi Song
A large number of conflict events are affecting the world all the time.
no code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Yida Mu, Ben P. Wu, William Thorne, Ambrose Robinson, Nikolaos Aletras, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Instruction-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive language understanding and the capacity to generate responses that follow specific prompts.
no code implementations • 10 Apr 2023 • Yida Mu, Mali Jin, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
It is crucial for policymakers to have a comprehensive understanding of the public's stance towards vaccination on a large scale.
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 • 6 Feb 2023 • Yida Mu, Kalina Bontcheva, Nikolaos Aletras
New events emerge over time influencing the topics of rumors in social media.
1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2023 • Yida Mu, Mali Jin, Charlie Grimshaw, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Xingyi Song
Annotated data is also necessary for training data-driven models for more nuanced analysis of attitudes towards vaccination.
1 code implementation • 21 Apr 2022 • Yida Mu, Pu Niu, Nikolaos Aletras
The phenomenon of misinformation spreading in social media has developed a new form of active citizens who focus on tackling the problem by refuting posts that might contain misinformation.