Preslav Nakov

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National University of Singapore ∙ Hamad Bin Khalifa University ∙ Qatar Foundation

Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute.

Predicting the Role of Political Trolls in Social Media

We investigate the political roles of "Internet trolls" in social media....
10/04/2019 ∙ by Atanas Atanasov, et al. ∙ 25 ∙ share

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Large-Scale Noun Compound Interpretation Using Bootstrapping and the Web as a Corpus

Responding to the need for semantic lexical resources in natural languag...
11/27/2019 ∙ by Su Nam Kim, et al. ∙ 24 ∙ share

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Detecting Deception in Political Debates Using Acoustic and Textual Features

We present work on deception detection, where, given a spoken claim, we ...
10/04/2019 ∙ by Daniel Kopev, et al. ∙ 19 ∙ share

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Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources

We present a study on predicting the factuality of reporting and bias of...
10/02/2018 ∙ by Ramy Baly, et al. ∙ 18 ∙ share

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CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media

We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of th...
01/21/2020 ∙ by Alberto Barron-Cedeno, et al. ∙ 14 ∙ share

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Findings of the 2016 WMT Shared Task on Cross-lingual Pronoun Prediction

We describe the design, the evaluation setup, and the results of the 201...
11/27/2019 ∙ by Liane Guillou, et al. ∙ 13 ∙ share

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SemEval-2017 Task 3: Community Question Answering

We describe SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. This ye...
12/02/2019 ∙ by Preslav Nakov, et al. ∙ 11 ∙ share

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Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Articles

Propaganda aims at influencing people's mindset with the purpose of adva...
10/06/2019 ∙ by Giovanni Da San Martino, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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Multi-Task Ordinal Regression for Jointly Predicting the Trustworthiness and the Leading Political Ideology of News Media

In the context of fake news, bias, and propaganda, we study two importan...
04/01/2019 ∙ by Ramy Baly, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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SemEval-2013 Task 4: Free Paraphrases of Noun Compounds

In this paper, we describe SemEval-2013 Task 4: the definition, the data...
11/23/2019 ∙ by Iris Hendrickx, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

In this paper, we describe the 2015 iteration of the SemEval shared task...
12/05/2019 ∙ by Sara Rosenthal, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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Global Thread-Level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering

Community question answering, a recent evolution of question answering i...
11/20/2019 ∙ by Shafiq Joty, et al. ∙ 8 ∙ share

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In Search of Credible News

We study the problem of finding fake online news. This is an important p...
11/19/2019 ∙ by Momchil Hardalov, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Paraphrasing Verbs for Noun Compound Interpretation

An important challenge for the automatic analysis of English written tex...
11/20/2019 ∙ by Preslav Nakov, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals

In response to the continuing research interest in computational semanti...
11/23/2019 ∙ by Iris Hendrickx, et al. ∙ 6 ∙ share

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Evaluating Pronominal Anaphora in Machine Translation: An Evaluation Measure and a Test Suite

The ongoing neural revolution in machine translation has made it easier ...
08/31/2019 ∙ by Prathyusha Jwalapuram, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Feature-Rich Part-of-speech Tagging for Morphologically Complex Languages: Application to Bulgarian

We present experiments with part-of-speech tagging for Bulgarian, a Slav...
11/26/2019 ∙ by Georgi Georgiev, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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DiscoTK: Using Discourse Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation

We present novel automatic metrics for machine translation evaluation th...
11/28/2019 ∙ by Shafiq Joty, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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SemanticZ at SemEval-2016 Task 3: Ranking Relevant Answers in Community Question Answering Using Semantic Similarity Based on Fine-tuned Word Embeddings

We describe our system for finding good answers in a community forum, as...
11/20/2019 ∙ by Todor Mihaylov, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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SemEval-2015 Task 3: Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

Community Question Answering (cQA) provides new interesting research dir...
11/26/2019 ∙ by Preslav Nakov, et al. ∙ 5 ∙ share

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Automatic Fact-Checking Using Context and Discourse Information

We study the problem of automatic fact-checking, paying special attentio...
08/04/2019 ∙ by Pepa Atanasova, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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It Takes Nine to Smell a Rat: Neural Multi-Task Learning for Check-Worthiness Prediction

We propose a multi-task deep-learning approach for estimating the check-...
08/19/2019 ∙ by Slavena Vasileva, et al. ∙ 4 ∙ share

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Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT

Transformer-based models pre-trained on large-scale corpora achieve stat...
02/27/2020 ∙ by Prakhar Ganesh, et al. ∙ 3 ∙ share

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Machine Translation Evaluation with Neural Networks

We present a framework for machine translation evaluation using neural n...
10/05/2017 ∙ by Francisco Guzmán, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Discourse Structure in Machine Translation Evaluation

In this article, we explore the potential of using sentence-level discou...
10/04/2017 ∙ by Shafiq Joty, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data

Internet and the proliferation of smart mobile devices have changed the ...
10/04/2017 ∙ by Preslav Nakov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Cross-Language Question Re-Ranking

We study how to find relevant questions in community forums when the lan...
10/04/2017 ∙ by Giovanni Da San Martino, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Building Chatbots from Forum Data: Model Selection Using Question Answering Metrics

We propose to use question answering (QA) data from Web forums to train ...
10/02/2017 ∙ by Martin Boyanov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Robust Tuning Datasets for Statistical Machine Translation

We explore the idea of automatically crafting a tuning dataset for Stati...
10/01/2017 ∙ by Preslav Nakov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Fully Automated Fact Checking Using External Sources

Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in rec...
10/01/2017 ∙ by Georgi Karadzhov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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WERd: Using Social Text Spelling Variants for Evaluating Dialectal Speech Recognition

We study the problem of evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) sy...
09/21/2017 ∙ by Ahmed Ali, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Large-Scale Goodness Polarity Lexicons for Community Question Answering

We transfer a key idea from the field of sentiment analysis to a new dom...
07/20/2017 ∙ by Todor Mihaylov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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The Case for Being Average: A Mediocrity Approach to Style Masking and Author Obfuscation

Users posting online expect to remain anonymous unless they have logged ...
07/12/2017 ∙ by Georgi Karadjov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Cross-language Learning with Adversarial Neural Networks: Application to Community Question Answering

We address the problem of cross-language adaptation for question-questio...
06/21/2017 ∙ by Shafiq Joty, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Enabling Medical Translation for Low-Resource Languages

We present research towards bridging the language gap between migrant wo...
10/09/2016 ∙ by Ahmad Musleh, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Bi-Text Alignment of Movie Subtitles for Spoken English-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation

We describe efforts towards getting better resources for English-Arabic ...
09/05/2016 ∙ by Fahad Al-Obaidli, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Egyptian Arabic to English Statistical Machine Translation System for NIST OpenMT'2015

The paper describes the Egyptian Arabic-to-English statistical machine t...
06/18/2016 ∙ by Hassan Sajjad, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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We Built a Fake News & Click-bait Filter: What Happened Next Will Blow Your Mind!

It is completely amazing! Fake news and click-baits have totally invaded...
03/10/2018 ∙ by Georgi Karadzhov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Fact Checking in Community Forums

Community Question Answering (cQA) forums are very popular nowadays, as ...
03/08/2018 ∙ by Tsvetomila Mihaylova, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Finding People's Professions and Nationalities Using Distant Supervision - The FMI@SU "goosefoot" team at the WSDM Cup 2017 Triple Scoring Task

We describe the system that our FMI@SU student's team built for particip...
12/22/2017 ∙ by Valentin Zmiycharov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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ClaimRank: Detecting Check-Worthy Claims in Arabic and English

We present ClaimRank, an online system for detecting check-worthy claims...
04/20/2018 ∙ by Israa Jaradat, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Automatic Stance Detection Using End-to-End Memory Networks

We present a novel end-to-end memory network for stance detection, which...
04/20/2018 ∙ by Mitra Mohtarami, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Integrating Stance Detection and Fact Checking in a Unified Corpus

A reasonable approach for fact checking a claim involves retrieving pote...
04/21/2018 ∙ by Ramy Baly, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness

We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Iden...
08/08/2018 ∙ by Pepa Atanasova, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Towards Automated Customer Support

Recent years have seen growing interest in conversational agents, such a...
09/02/2018 ∙ by Momchil Hardalov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Adversarial Domain Adaptation for Duplicate Question Detection

We address the problem of detecting duplicate questions in forums, which...
09/07/2018 ∙ by Darsh J Shah, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Joint Multitask Learning for Community Question Answering Using Task-Specific Embeddings

We address jointly two important tasks for Question Answering in communi...
09/24/2018 ∙ by Shafiq Joty, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Machine Reading Comprehension for Answer Re-Ranking in Customer Support Chatbots

Recent advances in deep neural networks, language modeling and language ...
02/12/2019 ∙ by Momchil Hardalov, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media

As offensive content has become pervasive in social media, there has bee...
02/25/2019 ∙ by Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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SemEval-2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval)

This paper presents the results and main findings of the shared task on ...
03/19/2019 ∙ by Marcos Zampieri, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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