Publications

@inproceedings{survey:2021:ai:fact-checkers,

title = {Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers},

author = {Preslav Nakov and David Corney and Maram Hasanain and Firoj Alam and Tamer Elsayed and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Paolo Papotti and Shaden Shaar and Giovanni Da San Martino},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},

pages = {4551–4558},

series = {IJCAI~'21},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{da2021survey,

title = {A survey on computational propaganda detection},

author = {Giovanni Da San Martino and Stefano Cresci and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Seunghak Yu and Roberto Di Pietro and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},

pages = {4826–4832},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nakov2021clef,

title = {The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news},

author = {Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Tamer Elsayed and Alberto Barrón-Cedeno and Rubén Míguez and Shaden Shaar and Firoj Alam and Fatima Haouari and Maram Hasanain and Nikolay Babulkov and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {European Conference on Information Retrieval},

pages = {639–649},

organization = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{dimitrov2021semeval,

title = {SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images},

author = {Dimitar Dimitrov and Bishr Bin Ali and Shaden Shaar and Firoj Alam and Fabrizio Silvestri and Hamed Firooz and Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2021)},

pages = {70–98},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{nakov2021overview,

title = {Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news},

author = {Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Tamer Elsayed and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Rubén Míguez and Shaden Shaar and Firoj Alam and Fatima Haouari and Maram Hasanain and Watheq Mansour and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages},

pages = {264–291},

organization = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{alam2021fighting,

title = {Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society},

author = {Firoj Alam and Shaden Shaar and Fahim Dalvi and Hassan Sajjad and Alex Nikolov and Hamdy Mubarak and Giovanni Da San Martino and Ahmed Abdelali and Nadir Durrani and Kareem Darwish and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021},

pages = {611–649},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{alam2021fightingicwsm,

title = {Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms.},

author = {Firoj Alam and Fahim Dalvi and Shaden Shaar and Nadir Durrani and Hamdy Mubarak and Alex Nikolov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Ahmed Abdelali and Hassan Sajjad and Kareem Darwish and others},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {ICWSM},

pages = {913–922},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{pramanick2021momenta,

title = {MOMENTA: A Multimodal Framework for Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets},

author = {Shraman Pramanick and Shivam Sharma and Dimitar Dimitrov and Md Shad Akhtar and Preslav Nakov and Tanmoy Chakraborty},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021},

pages = {4439–4455},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{shaar2021findings,

title = {Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection},

author = {Shaden Shaar and Firoj Alam and Giovanni Da San Martino and Alex Nikolov and Wajdi Zaghouani and Preslav Nakov and Anna Feldman},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda},

pages = {82–92},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{dimitrov2021detecting,

title = {Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes},

author = {Dimitar Dimitrov and Bishr Bin Ali and Shaden Shaar and Firoj Alam and Fabrizio Silvestri and Hamed Firooz and Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)},

pages = {6603–6617},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{pramanick2021detecting,

title = {Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets},

author = {Shraman Pramanick and Dimitar Dimitrov and Rituparna Mukherjee and Shivam Sharma and Md Shad Akhtar and Preslav Nakov and Tanmoy Chakraborty},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021},

pages = {2783–2796},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{chernyavskiy2021transformers,

title = {Transformers:``The End of History'' for Natural Language Processing?},

author = {Anton Chernyavskiy and Dmitry Ilvovsky and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases},

pages = {677–693},

organization = {Springer},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{rosenthal2021solid,

title = {SOLID: A Large-Scale Semi-Supervised Dataset for Offensive Language Identification},

author = {Sara Rosenthal and Pepa Atanasova and Georgi Karadzhov and Marcos Zampieri and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-01-01},

booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021},

pages = {915–928},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{baly2020written,

title = {What Was Written vs. Who Read It: News Media Profiling Using Text Analysis and Social Media Context},

author = {Ramy Baly and Georgi Karadzhov and Jisun An and Haewoon Kwak and Yoan Dinkov and Ahmed Ali and James Glass and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},

pages = {3364–3374},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}