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It’s All Relative: Learning Interpretable Models for Scoring Subjective Bias in Documents from Pairwise Comparisons

Matthias Grossglauser, Aswin Suresh, Chi Hsuan Wu

We propose an interpretable model to score the subjective bias present in documents, based only on their textual content. Our model is trained on pairs of revisions of the same Wikipedia article, where one version is more biased than the other. Although pr ...

2024

Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework

Daniel Gatica-Perez

This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Combating Online Scientific Misinformation

Panagiotis Smeros

The drastic shift towards digital communication in our mediasphere has caused a profound change in the production and consumption of information, which in turn has substantial implications on the social and political landscape. Misinformation, as a side ef ...

EPFL2022

Synthetic Disinformation Attacks on Automated Fact Verification Systems

Antoine Bosselut

Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources. However, the reali ...

ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2022

Introducing the HIPE 2022 Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

We present the HIPE-2022 shared task on named entity processing in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HIPE-2020 evaluation lab, this edition confronts systems with the challenges of dealing with more languages, learn ...

Springer International Publishing2022

A Two-Step Approach To Leverage Contextual Data: Speech Recognition In Air-Traffic Communications

Petr Motlicek, Juan Pablo Zuluaga Gomez, Amrutha Prasad

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), as the assistance of speech communication between pilots and air-traffic controllers, can significantly reduce the complexity of the task and increase the reliability of transmitted information. ASR application can lead ...

IEEE2022

On Representation Learning for Scientific News Articles Using Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs

Karl Aberer, Angeliki Romanou, Panagiotis Smeros

In the era of misinformation and information inflation, the credibility assessment of the produced news is of the essence. However, fact-checking can be challenging considering the limited references presented in the news. This challenge can be transcended ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

SciLens News Platform: A System for Real-Time Evaluation of News Articles

Karl Aberer, Angeliki Romanou, Panagiotis Smeros, Carlos Castillo

We demonstrate the SciLens News Platform, a novel system for evaluating the quality of news articles. The SciLens News Platform automatically collects contextual information about news articles in real-time and provides quality indicators about their valid ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2020 International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media

Panagiotis Smeros, Jérémie Rappaz

The workshop program of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's Fourteenth International Conference on Web and Social Media was held June 8 to 20, 2020. The conference venue, which had originally been Atlanta, Georgia, USA, had to ...

AMER ASSOC ARTIFICIAL INTELL2020

Assessing Public Opinion on CRISPR-Cas9: Combining Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller, Martin Müller

Background: The discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing method has opened unprecedented new potential for biological and medical engineering, sparking a growing public debate on both the potential and dangers of CRISPR applications. Given the speed ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2020