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  • SemEval-2016 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Preslav Nakov, Alan Ritter, Sara Rosenthal, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Veselin Stoyanov

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2016

    The fourth year of the SemEval-2016 Task 4 comprises five subtasks, three of which represent a significant departure from previous editions, and the task continues to be very popular, attracting a total of 43 teams.

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  • Predicting the Type and Target of Offensive Posts in Social Media

    Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Noura Farra, Ritesh Kumar

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2019

    The Offensive Language Identification Dataset (OLID), a new dataset with tweets annotated for offensive content using a fine-grained three-layer annotation scheme, is complied and made publicly available.

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  • SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal, Noura Farra, Preslav Nakov

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2017

    The fifth year of the Sentiment Analysis in Twitter task is described, with a new language, Arabic, for all subtasks, and information from the profiles of the Twitter users who posted the target tweets made available.

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  • SemEval-2010 task 8: multi-way classification of semantic relations between pairs of nominals

    Iris Hendrickx, Su Nam Kim, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Sebastian Padó, Marco Pennacchiotti, Lorenza Romano, +1 more

    Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions - DEW '09 · 2009

    A new task is introduced, which will be part of SemEval-2010: multi-way classification of mutually exclusive semantic relations between pairs of common nominals.

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

    Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Noura Farra, Ritesh Kumar

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2019

    The results and the main findings of SemEval-2019 Task 6 on Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Media (OffensEval), based on a new dataset, contain over 14,000 English tweets, are presented.

    893
  • SemEval-2014 Task 9: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal, Alan Ritter, Preslav Nakov, Veselin Stoyanov

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2014

    The Sentiment Analysis in Twitter task is described, a continuation of the last year’s task that ran successfully as part of SemEval2013 and introduced three new test sets: regular tweets, sarcastic tweets, and LiveJournal sentences.

    617
  • Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition

    Larry H. Smith, Lorraine K Tanabe, R. Ando, Cheng-Ju Kuo, I‐Fang Chung, Chun‐Nan Hsu, Yu-Shi Lin, Roman Klinger, +22 more

    Genome biology · 2008

    It is demonstrated that, by combining the results from all submissions, an F score of 0.9066 is feasible, and furthermore that the best result makes use of the lowest scoring submissions.

    560
  • SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)

    Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal, Pepa Atanasova, Georgi Karadzhov, Hamdy Mubarak, Leon Derczynski, Zeses Pitenis, +1 more

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2020

    The task included three subtasks corresponding to the hierarchical taxonomy of the OLID schema from OffensEval-2019, and it was offered in five languages: Arabic, Danish, English, Greek, and Turkish.

    544
  • SemEval-2010 Task 8: Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations Between Pairs of Nominals

    Iris Hendrickx, Kim, Su Nam, Zornitsa Kozareva, Preslav Nakov, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, Sebastian Padó, Marco Pennacchiotti, Lorenza Romano, +1 more

    arXiv · 2019

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  • SemEval-2015 Task 10: Sentiment Analysis in Twitter

    Sara Rosenthal, Preslav Nakov, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Saif M. Mohammad, Alan Ritter, Veselin Stoyanov

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2015

    The 2015 iteration of the SemEval shared task on Sentiment Analysis in Twitter was the most popular sentiment analysis shared task to date with more than 40 teams participating in each of the last three years.

    427
  • Fine-Grained Analysis of Propaganda in News Article

    Giovanni Da San Martino, Seunghak Yu, Alberto Barrón‐Cedeño, Rostislav Petrov, Preslav Nakov

    Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · 2019

    A novel task: performing fine-grained analysis of texts by detecting all fragments that contain propaganda techniques as well as their type is proposed, and a novel multi-granularity neural network is designed that outperforms several strong BERT-based baselines.

    423
  • A Survey of Confidence Estimation and Calibration in Large Language Models

    Jiahui Geng, Fengyu Cai, Yuxia Wang, Heinz Koeppl, Preslav Nakov, Iryna Gurevych

    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2024

    The challenges are outlined and recent technical advancements for LLM confidence estimation and calibration are summarized, and their applications are discussed and suggested promising directions for future work are suggested.

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  • FANG

    Van-Hoang Nguyen, Kazunari Sugiyama, Preslav Nakov, Min‐Yen Kan

    Proceedings of the ... ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management · 2020

    This work proposes Factual News Graph, a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection that is scalable in training as it does not have to maintain all nodes, and it is efficient at inference time, without the need to re-process the entire graph.

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  • Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers

    Preslav Nakov, David P. A. Corney, Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón‐Cedeño, Paolo Papotti, Shaden Shaar, +1 more

    Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021

    Here, a survey of the available intelligent technologies that can support the human expert in the different steps of her fact-checking endeavor includes identifying claims worth fact- checking, detecting relevant previously fact-checked claims, retrieving relevant evidence to fact-check a claim, and actually verifying a claim.

    334
  • Factuality challenges in the era of large language models and opportunities for fact-checking

    Isabelle Augenstein, Timothy J. Baldwin, Meeyoung Cha, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, David P. A. Corney, Renée DiResta, Emilio Ferrara, +10 more

    Nature Machine Intelligence · 2024

    By analysing the factuality constraints within LLMs and their impact on fact-checking, this work aims to contribute to a path towards maintaining accuracy at a time of confluence of generative artificial intelligence and misinformation.

    319
  • SemEval-2020 Task 11: Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles

    Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón‐Cedeño, Henning Wachsmuth, Rostislav Petrov, Preslav Nakov

    Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2020

    The results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles are presented and the system submissions and the methods they used are discussed.

    300
  • Predicting Factuality of Reporting and Bias of News Media Sources

    Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Dimitar Alexandrov, James Glass, Preslav Nakov

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2018

    This work is interested in characterizing entire news media, an under-studied, but arguably important research problem, both in its own right and as a prior for fact-checking systems.

    283
  • SemEval-2016 Task 3: Community Question Answering

    Preslav Nakov, Lluı́s Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Walid Magdy, Hamdy Mubarak, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Jim Glass, Bilal Randeree

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2016

    This paper describes the SemEval–2016 Task 3 on Community Question Answering, which was offered in English and Arabic, and found the best systems achieved an official score of 79.19, 76.70, 55.41, and 45.83 in subtasks A, B, C, and D.

    241
  • SemEval-2017 Task 3: Community Question Answering

    Preslav Nakov, Doris Hoogeveen, Lluı́s Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Hamdy Mubarak, Timothy Baldwin, Karin M. Verspoor

    International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval) · 2017

    SemEval–2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering reran the four subtasks from SemEval-2016, providing all the data from 2015 and 2016 for training, and fresh data for testing, and added a new subtask E in order to enable experimentation with Multi-domain Question Duplicate Detection in a larger-scale scenario, using StackExchange subforums.

    233
  • MOMENTA: A Multimodal Framework for Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets

    Shraman Pramanick, Shivam Sharma, Dimitar Dimitrov, Md Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · 2021

    This work proposes MOMENTA (MultimOdal framework for detecting harmful memes, a novel multimodal deep neural network that uses global and local perspectives to detect harmful memes and outperforms several strong rivaling approaches.

    231
  • Do-Not-Answer: A Dataset for Evaluating Safeguards in LLMs

    Yuxia Wang, Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Preslav Nakov, Timothy J. Baldwin

    arXiv · 2023

    The first open-source dataset to evaluate safeguards in LLMs is collected, and several BERT-like classifiers are trained that can achieve results that are comparable with GPT-4 on automatic safety evaluation.

    228
  • SemEval-2007 task 04: classification of semantic relations between nominals

    Roxana Gîrju, Preslav Nakov, Vivi Năstase, Stan Śzpakowicz, Peter D. Turney, Deniz Yüret

    Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations - SemEval '07 · 2007

    An evaluation task designed to provide a framework for comparing different approaches to classifying semantic relations between nominals in a sentence as part of SemEval, the 4th edition of the semantic evaluation event previously known as SensEval.

    222
  • A Survey on Computational Propaganda Detection

    Giovanni Da San Martino, Stefano Cresci, Alberto Barrón‐Cedeño, Seunghak Yu, Roberto Di Pietro, Preslav Nakov

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    The state of the art on computational propaganda detection from the perspective of Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis is reviewed, arguing about the need for combined efforts between these communities.

    219
  • On the effect of dropping layers of pre-trained transformer models

    Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Preslav Nakov

    Computer Speech & Language · 2022

    The lower layers are most critical to maintain downstream task performance, and some tasks such as paraphrase de-tection and sentence similarity are more robust to the dropping of layers, and models trained using different objective function exhibit di-erent learning patterns and w.r.t the layer dropping.

    207
  • We Can Detect Your Bias: Predicting the Political Ideology of News Articles

    Ramy Baly, Giovanni Da San Martino, James Glass, Preslav Nakov

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020

    A large dataset of articles that were manually annotated for political ideology -left, center, or right-, which is well-balanced across both topics and media, and an adversarial media adaptation, as well as a specially adapted triplet loss are proposed.

    207

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