no code implementations • 13 Feb 2023 • Andrea Papenmeier, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Hienert, Alfred Sliwa, Ahmet Aker, Norbert Fuhr
Search systems on the Web rely on user input to generate relevant results.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2023 • Andrea Papenmeier, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Hienert, Alfred Sliwa, Ahmet Aker, Norbert Fuhr
Shopping online is more and more frequent in our everyday life.
no code implementations • 22 Jun 2021 • Ye Jiang, Xingyi Song, Carolina Scarton, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva
In this paper, we introduce a fine-grained annotated misinformation tweets dataset including social behaviours annotation (e. g. comment or question to the misinformation).
no code implementations • RANLP 2019 • Piush Aggarwal, Ahmet Aker
We also perform a comparative analysis with sentiments showing that sentiment alone is not enough to distinguish between good and bad news.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Genevieve Gorrell, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Ahmet Aker, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Kalina Bontcheva, Leon Derczynski
Rumour verification is characterised by the need to consider evolving conversations and news updates to reach a verdict on a rumour{'}s veracity.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Vincentius Kevin, Birte H{\"o}gden, Claudia Schwenger, Ali {\c{S}}ahan, Neelu Madan, Piush Aggarwal, Anusha Bangaru, Farid Muradov, Ahmet Aker
This paper discusses the choice of the labels, their implementation and visualization.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Sebastian Dungs, Ahmet Aker, Norbert Fuhr, Kalina Bontcheva
Prior manual studies of rumours suggested that crowd stance can give insights into the actual rumour veracity.
no code implementations • RANLP 2017 • Ahmet Aker, Johann Petrak, Firas Sabbah
The performance drops when there is no support from HFST and the entire lemmatization process is based on lemma dictionaries.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ahmet Aker, Huangpan Zhang
Argumentative corpora are costly to create and are available in only few languages with English dominating the area.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ahmet Aker, Alfred Sliwa, Yuan Ma, Ruishen Lui, Niravkumar Borad, Seyedeh Ziyaei, Mina Ghobadi
This paper offers a comparative analysis of the performance of different supervised machine learning methods and feature sets on argument mining tasks.
2 code implementations • RANLP 2017 • Ahmet Aker, Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva
Stance classification determines the attitude, or stance, in a (typically short) text.
no code implementations • RANLP 2017 • Nattapong Sanchan, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva
In our work, we investigate two different clustering approaches for the generation of the summaries.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2017 • Nattapong Sanchan, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva
In this paper, we collected and annotated debate data for an automatic summarization task.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2017 • Arkaitz Zubiaga, Ahmet Aker, Kalina Bontcheva, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter
Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and news gathering, its unmoderated nature often leads to the emergence and spread of rumours, i. e. pieces of information that are unverified at the time of posting.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Emma Barker, Monica Paramita, Adam Funk, Emina Kurtic, Ahmet Aker, Jonathan Foster, Mark Hepple, Robert Gaizauskas
Second, we define a task-based evaluation framework for reader comment summarization that allows summarization systems to be assessed in terms of how well they support users in a time-limited task of identifying issues and characterising opinion on issues in comments.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Murad Abouammoh, Kashif Shah, Ahmet Aker
To overcome the low availability of parallel resources the machine translation community has recognized the potential of using comparable resources as training data.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ahmet Aker, Monica Paramita, Emma Barker, Robert Gaizauskas
Terminology extraction resources are needed for a wide range of human language technology applications, including knowledge management, information extraction, semantic search, cross-language information retrieval and automatic and assisted translation.
1 code implementation • LREC 2014 • Ahmet Aker, Monica Paramita, M{\=a}rcis Pinnis, Robert Gaizauskas
In this work we present three different methods for cleaning noise from automatically generated bilingual dictionaries: LLR, pivot and translation based approach.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Inguna Skadi{\c{n}}a, Ahmet Aker, Nikos Mastropavlos, Fangzhong Su, Dan Tufis, Mateja Verlic, Andrejs Vasi{\c{l}}jevs, Bogdan Babych, Paul Clough, Robert Gaizauskas, Nikos Glaros, Monica Lestari Paramita, M{\=a}rcis Pinnis
Lack of sufficient parallel data for many languages and domains is currently one of the major obstacles to further advancement of automated translation.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ahmet Aker, Mahmoud El-Haj, M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz
For each run we assessed the results provided by 25 workers on a set of 10 tasks.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Emina Kurti{\'c}, Bill Wells, Guy J. Brown, Timothy Kempton, Ahmet Aker
In this paper we present a corpus of audio and video recordings of spontaneous, face-to-face multi-party conversation in two languages.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Monica Lestari Paramita, Paul Clough, Ahmet Aker, Robert Gaizauskas
In this work, we investigate the correlation between similarity measures utilising language-independent and language-dependent features and respective human judgments.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ahmet Aker, Evangelos Kanoulas, Robert Gaizauskas
In this work we aim to reduce the amount of time and resources spent for tasks 1 and 2.