Publications

@inproceedings{hasanain-etal-2023-araieval,

title = {ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text},

author = {Maram Hasanain and Firoj Alam and Hamdy Mubarak and Samir Abdaljalil and Wajdi Zaghouani and Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Abed Freihat},

editor = {Hassan Sawaf and Samhaa El-Beltagy and Wajdi Zaghouani and Walid Magdy and Ahmed Abdelali and Nadi Tomeh and Ibrahim Abu Farha and Nizar Habash and Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg and Hatem Haddad and Imed Zitouni and Khalil Mrini and Rawan Almatham},

url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.44},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-12-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023},

pages = {483–493},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

address = {Singapore (Hybrid)},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{hasanain-etal-2023-qcri,

title = {QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models},

author = {Maram Hasanain and Ahmed El-Shangiti and Rabindra Nath Nandi and Preslav Nakov and Firoj Alam},

editor = {Atul Kr. Ojha and A. Seza Doğruöz and Giovanni Da San Martino and Harish Tayyar Madabushi and Ritesh Kumar and Elisa Sartori},

url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.172},

doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.172},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-07-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)},

pages = {1237–1244},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

address = {Toronto, Canada},

abstract = {Misinformation spreading in mainstream and social media has been misleading users in different ways. Manual detection and verification efforts by journalists and fact-checkers can no longer cope with the great scale and quick spread of misleading information. This motivated research and industry efforts to develop systems for analyzing and verifying news spreading online. The SemEval-2023 Task 3 is an attempt to address several subtasks under this overarching problem, targeting writing techniques used in news articles to affect readers' opinions. The task addressed three subtasks with six languages, in addition to three ``surprise'' test languages, resulting in 27 different test setups. This paper describes our participating system to this task. Our team is one of the 6 teams that successfully submitted runs for all setups. The official results show that our system is ranked among the top 3 systems for 10 out of the 27 setups.},

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pubstate = {published},

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@inproceedings{barron2023clef,

title = {The clef-2023 checkthat! lab: Checkworthiness, subjectivity, political bias, factuality, and authority},

author = {Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Firoj Alam and Tommaso Caselli and Giovanni Da San Martino and Tamer Elsayed and Andrea Galassi and Fatima Haouari and Federico Ruggeri and Julia Maria Struß and Rabindra Nath Nandi and others},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {European Conference on Information Retrieval},

pages = {506–517},

organization = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{clef-checkthat:2023:task3,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 3 on Political Bias of News Articles and News Media},

author = {Giovanni Da San Martino and Firoj Alam and Maram Hasanain and Rabindra Nath Nandi and Dilshod Azizov and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

booktitle = {Working Notes of CLEF 2023 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum},

crossref = {clef2023-workingnotes},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{clef-checkthat:2023:task2,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on Subjectivity in News Articles},

author = {Andrea Galassi and Federico Ruggeri and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Firoj Alam and Tommaso Caselli and Mucahid Kutlu and Julia Maria Struss and Francesco Antici and Maram Hasanain and Juliane Köhler and Katerina Korre and Folkert Leistra and Arianna Muti and Melanie Siegel and Turkmen. Mehmet Deniz and Michael Wiegand and Wajdi Zaghouani},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

crossref = {clef2023-workingnotes},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{muresan2022findings,

title = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022},

author = {Smaranda Muresan and Preslav Nakov and Aline Villavicencio},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{chakraborty2022proceedings,

title = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations},

author = {Tanmoy Chakraborty and Md Shad Akhtar and Kai Shu and H Russell Bernard and Maria Liakata and Preslav Nakov and Shivam Sharma and Chhavi Sharma and Shivani Kumar and Yash Kumar Atri and others},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{sharma2022findings,

title = {Findings of the CONSTRAINT 2022 Shared Task on Detecting the Hero, the Villain, and the Victim in Memes},

author = {Shivam Sharma and Tharun Suresh and Atharva Kulkarni and Himanshi Mathur and Preslav Nakov and Md Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations},

pages = {1–11},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{muresan2022proceedings,

title = {Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},

author = {Smaranda Muresan and Preslav Nakov and Aline Villavicencio},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{alam2022overviewb,

title = {Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic},

author = {Firoj Alam and Hamdy Mubarak and Wajdi Zaghouani and Giovanni Da San Martino and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)},

pages = {108–118},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{ijcai2022p781,

title = {Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey},

author = {Shivam Sharma and Firoj Alam and Md. Shad Akhtar and Dimitar Dimitrov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Hamed Firooz and Alon Halevy and Fabrizio Silvestri and Preslav Nakov and Tanmoy Chakraborty},

editor = {Lud De Raedt},

url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/781},

doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2022/781},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on 

 Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-22},

pages = {5597–5606},

publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},

note = {Survey Track},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{masud2022half,

title = {Half-Day Tutorial on Combating Online Hate Speech: The Role of Content, Networks, Psychology, User Behavior, etc.},

author = {Sarah Masud and Pinkesh Pinkesh and Amitava Das and Manish Gupta and Preslav Nakov and Tanmoy Chakraborty},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining},

pages = {1629–1631},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nandi2022detecting,

title = {Detecting the Role of an Entity in Harmful Memes: Techniques and their Limitations},

author = {Rabindra Nath Nandi and Firoj Alam and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations},

pages = {43–54},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{alam2022survey,

title = {A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection},

author = {Firoj Alam and Stefano Cresci and Tanmoy Chakraborty and Fabrizio Silvestri and Dimiter Dimitrov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Shaden Shaar and Hamed Firooz and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics},

pages = {6625–6643},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{clef-checkthat:2022:task1,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on Identifying Relevant Claims in Tweets},

author = {Preslav Nakov and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Giovanni Da San Martino and Firoj Alam and Rubén M'ıguez and Tommaso Caselli and Mucahid Kutlu and Wajdi Zaghouani and Chengkai Li and Shaden Shaar and Hamdy Mubarak and Alex Nikolov and Yavuz Selim Kartal and Javier Beltrán},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

booktitle = {Working Notes of CLEF 2022—Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum},

address = {Bologna, Italy},

series = {CLEF~'2022},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}