no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Matti Wiegmann, Khalid Al Khatib, Vishal Khanna, Benno Stein
Existing studies on the analysis of persuasion in online discussions focus on investigating the effectiveness of comments in discussions and ignore the analysis of the effectiveness of debaters over multiple discussions.
1 code implementation • In2Writing (ACL) 2022 • Matti Wiegmann, Michael Völske, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast
Context-sensitive word search engines are writing assistants that support word choice, phrasing, and idiomatic language use by indexing large-scale n-gram collections and implementing a wildcard search.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Matti Wiegmann, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast
Celebrities are among the most prolific users of social media, promoting their personas and rallying followers.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Martin Potthast, Tim Gollub, Kristof Komlossy, Sebastian Schuster, Matti Wiegmann, Garces Fern, Erika Patricia ez, Matthias Hagen, Benno Stein
To address the urging task of clickbait detection, we constructed a new corpus of 38, 517 annotated Twitter tweets, the Webis Clickbait Corpus 2017.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2018 • Matti Wiegmann, Michael Völske, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, Martin Potthast
We study feature selection as a means to optimize the baseline clickbait detector employed at the Clickbait Challenge 2017.