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.
no code implementations • SEMEVAL 2019 • Ye Jiang, Johann Petrak, Xingyi Song, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard
This paper describes the participation of team {``}bertha-von-suttner{''} in the SemEval2019 task 4 Hyperpartisan News Detection task.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2018 • Leon Derczynski, Kenny Meesters, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard
Messages are filtered for informativeness based on a definition of the concept drawn from prior research and crisis response experts.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Ye Jiang, Xingyi Song, Jackie Harrison, Shaun Quegan, Diana Maynard
Preliminary analysis identifies clearly different attitudes on the same issue presented in different news sources.
1 code implementation • LREC 2016 • Leon Derczynski, Jannik Str{\"o}tgen, Diana Maynard, Mark A. Greenwood, Manuel Jung
GATE is a widely used open-source solution for text processing with a large user community.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva
This paper discusses the challenges in carrying out fair comparative evaluations of sentiment analysis systems.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2014 • Leon Derczynski, Diana Maynard, Giuseppe Rizzo, Marieke van Erp, Genevieve Gorrell, Raphaël Troncy, Johann Petrak, Kalina Bontcheva
Applying natural language processing for mining and intelligent information access to tweets (a form of microblog) is a challenging, emerging research area.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Diana Maynard, Mark Greenwood
Sarcasm is a common phenomenon in social media, and is inherently difficult to analyse, not just automatically but often for humans too.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Diana Maynard, Mark A. Greenwood
This paper describes a tool developed to improve access to the enormous volume of data housed at the UK's National Archives, both for the general public and for specialist researchers.