Publications

@inproceedings{clef2018checkthat:overall,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims},

author = {Preslav Nakov and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Tamer Elsayed and Reem Suwaileh and Lluís Màrquez and Wajdi Zaghouani and Pepa Atanasova and Spas Kyuchukov and Giovanni Da San Martino},

editor = {Patrice Bellot and Chiraz Trabelsi and Josiane Mothe and Fionn Murtagh and Jian Yun Nie and Laure Soulier and Eric Sanjuan and Linda Cappellato and Nicola Ferro},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-09-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the CLEF Association: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF'18)},

pages = {372–387},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {Avignon, France},

series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{clef2018checkthat:task1,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, Task 1: Check-Worthiness},

author = {Pepa Atanasova and Lluís Màrquez and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Tamer Elsayed and Reem Suwaileh and Wajdi Zaghouani and Spas Kyuchukov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Preslav Nakov},

editor = {Linda Cappellato and Nicola Ferro and Jian-Yun Nie and Laure Soulier},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-09-01},

booktitle = {CLEF 2018 Working Notes. Working Notes of CLEF 2018 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'18)},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

address = {Avignon, France},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{clef2018checkthat:task2,

title = {Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, Task 2: Factuality},

author = {Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Tamer Elsayed and Reem Suwaileh and Lluís Màrquez and Pepa Atanasova and Wajdi Zaghouani and Spas Kyuchukov and Giovanni Da San Martino and Preslav Nakov},

editor = {Linda Cappellato and Nicola Ferro and Jian-Yun Nie and Laure Soulier},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-09-01},

booktitle = {CLEF 2018 Working Notes. Working Notes of CLEF 2018 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'18)},

publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},

address = {Avignon, France},

series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{NAACL2018:stance,

title = {Automatic Stance Detection Using End-to-End Memory Networks},

author = {Mitra Mohtarami and Ramy Baly and James Glass and Preslav Nakov and Lluís Màrquez and Alessandro Moschitti},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL'18)},

pages = {767–776},

address = {New Orleans, LA, USA},

series = {NAACL-HLT'18},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{baly-EtAl:2018:N18-2,

title = {Integrating Stance Detection and Fact Checking in a Unified Corpus},

author = {Ramy Baly and Mitra Mohtarami and James Glass and Lluí-s Màrquez and Alessandro Moschitti and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL'18)},

pages = {21–27},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

address = {New Orleans, LA, USA},

series = {NAACL-HLT'18},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{NAACL2018:claimrank,

title = {ClaimRank: Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Arabic and English},

author = {Israa Jaradat and Pepa Gencheva and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Lluís Màrquez and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL'18)},

pages = {26-30},

address = {New Orleans, LA, USA},

series = {NAACL-HLT~'18},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{AAAI2018:factchecking,

title = {Fact Checking in Community Forums},

author = {Tsvetomila Mihaylova and Preslav Nakov and Lluís Màrquez and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Mitra Mohtarami and Georgi Karadjov and James Glass},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-02-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'18)},

pages = {5309–5316},

address = {New Orleans, LA, USA},

series = {AAAI'18},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{D18-1389,

title = {Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources},

author = {Ramy Baly and Georgi Karadzhov and Dimitar Alexandrov and James Glass and Preslav Nakov},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'18)},

pages = {3528–3539},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

address = {Brussels, Belgium},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{P18-1228,

title = {SemAxis: A Lightweight Framework to Characterize Domain-Specific Word Semantics Beyond Sentiment},

author = {Jisun An and Haewoon Kwak and Yong-Yeol Ahn},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'18)},

pages = {2450–2461},

publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},

address = {Melbourne, Australia},

series = {ACL~'18},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Barron:18,

title = {Qlusty: Quick and Dirty Generation of Event Videos from Written Media Coverage},

author = {Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Giovanni Da San Martino and Yifan Zhang and Ahmed Ali and Fahim Dalvi},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR'18)},

pages = {27–32},

address = {Grenoble, France},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{SeminarUsers2017,

title = {Seminar Users in the Arabic Twitter Sphere},

author = {Kareem Darwish and Dimitar Alexandrov and Preslav Nakov and Yelena Mejova},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo'17)},

pages = {91–108},

address = {Oxford, UK},

series = {SocInfo'17},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{RANLP2017:factchecking:external,

title = {Fully Automated Fact Checking Using External Sources},

author = {Georgi Karadzhov and Preslav Nakov and Lluís Màrquez and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Ivan Koychev},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'17)},

pages = {344–353},

address = {Varna, Bulgaria},

series = {RANLP'17},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{RANLP2017:credibility:trolls,

title = {Do Not Trust the Trolls: Predicting Credibility in Community Question Answering Forums},

author = {Preslav Nakov and Tsvetomila Mihaylova and Lluís Màrquez and Yashkumar Shiroya and Ivan Koychev},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'17)},

pages = {551–560},

address = {Varna, Bulgaria},

series = {RANLP'17},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{RANLP2017:debates,

title = {A Context-Aware Approach for Detecting Worth-Checking Claims in Political Debates},

author = {Pepa Gencheva and Preslav Nakov and Lluís Màrquez and Alberto Barrón-Cedeño and Ivan Koychev},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'17)},

pages = {267–276},

address = {Varna, Bulgaria},

series = {RANLP'17},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{RANLP2017:clickbait,

title = {We Built a Fake News & Click-bait Filter: What Happened Next Will Blow Your Mind!},

author = {Georgi Karadzhov and Pepa Gencheva and Preslav Nakov and Ivan Koychev},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'17)},

pages = {334–343},

address = {Varna, Bulgaria},

series = {RANLP~'17},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}