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05/16/2023
BERTTM: Leveraging Contextualized Word Embeddings from Pre-trained Language Models for Neural Topic Modeling
With the development of neural topic models in recent years, topic model...
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05/05/2023
NewsQuote: A Dataset Built on Quote Extraction and Attribution for Expert Recommendation in Fact-Checking
To enhance the ability to find credible evidence in news articles, we pr...
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05/03/2023
Some Observations on Fact-Checking Work with Implications for Computational Support
Social media and user-generated content (UGC) have become increasingly i...
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04/04/2023
A User-Centered, Interactive, Human-in-the-Loop Topic Modelling System
Human-in-the-loop topic modelling incorporates users' knowledge into the...
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02/28/2023
PANACEA: An Automated Misinformation Detection System on COVID-19
In this demo, we introduce a web-based misinformation detection system P...
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11/30/2022
A Pipeline for Generating, Annotating and Employing Synthetic Data for Real World Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) is a growing area of research, often used to fac...
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11/29/2022
Holding AI to Account: Challenges for the Delivery of Trustworthy AI in Healthcare
The need for AI systems to provide explanations for their behaviour is n...
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11/27/2022
Unsupervised Opinion Summarisation in the Wasserstein Space
Opinion summarisation synthesises opinions expressed in a group of docum...
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09/26/2022
Embedding digital participatory budgeting within local government: motivations, strategies and barriers faced
The challenging task of embedding innovative participatory processes and...
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08/08/2022
Template-based Abstractive Microblog Opinion Summarisation
We introduce the task of microblog opinion summarisation (MOS) and share...
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07/23/2022
Supporting peace negotiations in the Yemen war through machine learning
Today's conflicts are becoming increasingly complex, fluid and fragmente...
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05/19/2022
Trust, Professional Vision and Diagnostic Work
In this paper we consider some empirical materials from our ongoing rese...
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05/06/2022
Disentangled Learning of Stance and Aspect Topics for Vaccine Attitude Detection in Social Media
Building models to detect vaccine attitudes on social media is challengi...
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05/05/2022
Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims
We present a comprehensive work on automated veracity assessment from da...
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01/24/2022
Using Computational Grounded Theory to Understand Tutors' Experiences in the Gig Economy
The introduction of online marketplace platforms has led to the advent o...
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11/23/2021
Evaluating the application of NLP tools in mainstream participatory budgeting processes in Scotland
In recent years participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland has grown from ...
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10/12/2021
Evaluation of Abstractive Summarisation Models with Machine Translation in Deliberative Processes
We present work on summarising deliberative processes for non-English la...
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09/20/2021
A mixed-methods ethnographic approach to participatory budgeting in Scotland
Participatory budgeting (PB) is already well established in Scotland in ...
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08/26/2021
Machine Learning for Mediation in Armed Conflicts
Today's conflicts are becoming increasingly complex, fluid and fragmente...
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06/30/2021
Evaluation of Thematic Coherence in Microblogs
Collecting together microblogs representing opinions about the same topi...
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05/28/2021
A Query-Driven Topic Model
Topic modeling is an unsupervised method for revealing the hidden semant...
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02/28/2021
Citizen Participation and Machine Learning for a Better Democracy
The development of democratic systems is a crucial task as confirmed by ...
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10/03/2020
Accounts, Accountability and Agency for Safe and Ethical AI
We examine the problem of explainable AI (xAI) and explore what deliveri...
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09/29/2020
Online platforms of public participation – a deliberative democracy or a delusion?
Trust and confidence in democratic institutions is at an all-time low. A...
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08/30/2019
A Study of Cyber Hate on Twitter with Implications for Social Media Governance Strategies
This paper explores ways in which the harmful effects of cyber hate may ...
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12/03/2018
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Public Perception of the Opportunities and Challenges of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (or IoT), which enables the networked interconnec...
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12/06/2017
Discourse-Aware Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media Using Sequential Classifiers
Rumour stance classification, defined as classifying the stance of speci...
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04/20/2017
SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours
Media is full of false claims. Even Oxford Dictionaries named "post-trut...
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04/03/2017
Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey
Despite the increasing use of social media platforms for information and...
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02/27/2017
Stance Classification of Social Media Users in Independence Movements
Social media and data mining are increasingly being used to analyse poli...
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10/24/2016
Learning Reporting Dynamics during Breaking News for Rumour Detection in Social Media
Breaking news leads to situations of fast-paced reporting in social medi...
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09/07/2016
Using Gaussian Processes for Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media
Social media tend to be rife with rumours while new reports are released...
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04/25/2016