📰 Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda 2021 — accepted papers

Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda, held in Online, June 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 21 papers of it; our library holds 5 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Online · 🗓 June 2021

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. AraStance: A Multi-Country and Multi-Domain Dataset of Arabic Stance Detection for Fact CheckingTariq Alhindi, Amal Alabdulkarim, Ali Alshehri et al.30 citations · our summary
2. Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection ↗Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino et al.23 citations
3. Improving Hate Speech Type and Target Detection with Hateful Metaphor Features ↗Jens Lemmens, Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans20 citations
4. Improving Cross-Domain Hate Speech Detection by Reducing the False Positive Rate ↗Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans19 citations
5. Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized EmbeddingsSubhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan16 citations · our summary
6. DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERTAhmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar15 citations · our summary
7. MEAN: Multi-head Entity Aware Attention Networkfor Political Perspective Detection in News Media ↗Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser12 citations
8. Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 InfodemicLasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi11 citations · our summary
9. Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News ↗Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Verónica Pérez-Rosas et al.9 citations
10. Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble ↗Georgios Tziafas, Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Tommaso Caselli9 citations

All accepted papers (21)

The most cited first; 5 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. AraStance: A Multi-Country and Multi-Domain Dataset of Arabic Stance Detection for Fact CheckingTariq Alhindi, Amal Alabdulkarim, Ali Alshehri et al.30 citations · our summary
2. Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection ↗Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino et al.23 citations
3. Improving Hate Speech Type and Target Detection with Hateful Metaphor Features ↗Jens Lemmens, Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans20 citations
4. Improving Cross-Domain Hate Speech Detection by Reducing the False Positive Rate ↗Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans19 citations
5. Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized EmbeddingsSubhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan16 citations · our summary
6. DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERTAhmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar15 citations · our summary
7. MEAN: Multi-head Entity Aware Attention Networkfor Political Perspective Detection in News Media ↗Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser12 citations
8. Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 InfodemicLasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi11 citations · our summary
9. Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News ↗Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Verónica Pérez-Rosas et al.9 citations
10. Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble ↗Georgios Tziafas, Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Tommaso Caselli9 citations
11. An Empirical Assessment of the Qualitative Aspects of Misinformation in Health News ↗Chaoyuan Zuo, Qi Zhang, Ritwik Banerjee8 citations
12. Never guess what I heard... Rumor Detection in Finnish News: a Dataset and a Baseline ↗Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen et al.7 citations
13. R00 at NLP4IF-2021 Fighting COVID-19 Infodemic with Transformers and More TransformersAhmed Qarqaz, Dia Abujaber, Malak Abdullah7 citations · our summary
14. Identifying Automatically Generated Headlines using Transformers ↗Antonis Maronikolakis, Hinrich Schütze, Mark Stevenson6 citations
15. Multi Output Learning using Task Wise Attention for Predicting Binary Properties of Tweets : Shared-Task-On-Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic ↗Ayush Suhane, Shreyas Kowshik6 citations
16. iCompass at NLP4IF-2021–Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic ↗Wassim Henia, Oumayma Rjab, Hatem Haddad et al.6 citations
17. Classification of Censored Tweets in Chinese Language using XLNet ↗Shaikh Sahil Ahmed, Anand Kumar M.5 citations
18. Generalisability of Topic Models in Cross-corpora Abusive Language Detection ↗Tulika Bose, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr5 citations
19. NARNIA at NLP4IF-2021: Identification of Misinformation in COVID-19 Tweets Using BERTweet ↗Ankit Kumar, Naman Jhunjhunwala, Raksha Agarwal et al.5 citations
20. Understanding the Impact of Evidence-Aware Sentence Selection for Fact Checking ↗Giannis Bekoulis, Christina Papagiannopoulou, Nikos Deligiannis3 citations
21. Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance and Bias of Text-Based Deception Detection Models ↗Galen Weld, Ellyn Ayton, Tim Althoff et al.1 citation

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (5)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. AraStance: A Multi-Country and Multi-Domain Dataset of Arabic Stance Detection for Fact CheckingWorkshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and PropagandaTariq Alhindi, Amal Alabdulkarim, Ali Alshehri, et al.2021 · 41 citations
2. Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized EmbeddingsWorkshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and PropagandaSubhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan2021 · 25 citations
3. DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERTWorkshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and PropagandaAhmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar2021 · 17 citations
4. Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 InfodemicWorkshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and PropagandaLasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi2021 · 16 citations
5. R00 at NLP4IF-2021 Fighting COVID-19 Infodemic with Transformers and More TransformersWorkshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and PropagandaAhmed Qarqaz, Dia Abujaber, Malak Abdullah2021 · 9 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

Semitic languages (5)😊Sentiment & emotion (1)🌍Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (5)🖥️Computer Science (5)🤝Social Sciences (5)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓University of WolverhamptonWolverhampton · United Kingdom1 work here🎓Birmingham City UniversityBirmingham · United Kingdom1 work here🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States1 work here🎓University of British ColumbiaVancouver · Canada1 work here🎓Jordan University of Science and TechnologyIrbid · Jordan1 work here🎓University of MünsterMünster · Germany1 work here🎓Hunter CollegeNew York · United States1 work here🎓Hamad bin Khalifa UniversityDoha · Qatar1 work here🎓University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkBuffalo · United States1 work here🎓Columbia UniversityNew York · United States1 work here

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