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With the widespread use of social networks, detecting the topics discussed on these platforms has become a significant challenge. Current approaches primarily rely on frequent pattern mining or semantic relations, often neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mehrdad Ranjbar Khadivi , Shahin Akbarpour , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Babak Anari

We introduce a new method for extracting structured threat behaviors from threat intelligence text. Our method is based on a multi-stage ranking architecture that allows jointly optimizing for efficiency and effectiveness. Therefore, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Udesh Kumarasinghe , Ahmed Lekssays , Husrev Taha Sencar , Sabri Boughorbel , Charitha Elvitigala , Preslav Nakov

Since the introduction of the SemEval 2020 Task 11 (Martino et al., 2020a), several approaches have been proposed in the literature for classifying propaganda based on the rhetorical techniques used to influence readers. These methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Anni Chen , Bhuwan Dhingra

This study aims at investigating the effect of applying single learner machine learning approach and ensemble machine learning approach for offensive language detection on Arabic language. Classifying Arabic social media text is a very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fatemah Husain

Recently, pre-trained transformer-based architectures have proven to be very efficient at language modeling and understanding, given that they are trained on a large enough corpus. Applications in language generation for Arabic are still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Wissam Antoun , Fady Baly , Hazem Hajj

This paper discusses the approach used by the Accenture Team for CLEF2021 CheckThat! Lab, Task 1, to identify whether a claim made in social media would be interesting to a wide audience and should be fact-checked. Twitter training and test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Evan Williams , Paul Rodrigues , Sieu Tran

We describe our system for SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. We developed ensemble models using RoBERTa-based neural architectures, additional CRF layers, transfer learning between the two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Anton Chernyavskiy , Dmitry Ilvovsky , Preslav Nakov

This research presents our team KEIS@JUST participation at SemEval-2020 Task 12 which represents shared task on multilingual offensive language. We participated in all the provided languages for all subtasks except sub-task-A for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saja Khaled Tawalbeh , Mahmoud Hammad , Mohammad AL-Smadi

The spread of propaganda through the internet has increased drastically over the past years. Lately, propaganda detection has started gaining importance because of the negative impact it has on society. In this work, we describe our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Tanmay Chavan , Aditya Kane

Rampant use of offensive language on social media led to recent efforts on automatic identification of such language. Though offensive language has general characteristics, attacks on specific entities may exhibit distinct phenomena such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Hamdy Mubarak , Ahmed Abdelali , Kareem Darwish , Younes Samih

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ahmad Beltagy , Abdelrahman Wael , Omar ElSherief

This article introduces a new language-independent approach for creating a large-scale high-quality test collection of tweets that supports multiple information retrieval (IR) tasks without running a shared-task campaign. The adopted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Maram Hasanain , Reem Suwaileh , Tamer Elsayed , Mucahid Kutlu , Hind Almerekhi

This paper introduces Ta'keed, an explainable Arabic automatic fact-checking system. While existing research often focuses on classifying claims as "True" or "False," there is a limited exploration of generating explanations for claim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Saud Althabiti , Mohammad Ammar Alsalka , Eric Atwell

This paper describes our winning system on SemEval 2022 Task 7: Identifying Plausible Clarifications of Implicit and Underspecified Phrases in Instructional Texts. A replaced token detection pre-trained model is utilized with minorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Junyuan Shang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Yanjun Yu , Yue Zhou , Li Xiang , Guixiu Yang

Identifying hate speech content in the Arabic language is challenging due to the rich quality of dialectal variations. This study introduces a multilabel hate speech dataset in the Arabic language. We have collected 10000 Arabic tweets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Wajdi Zaghouani , Md. Rafiul Biswas

Fake news and deceptive machine-generated text are serious problems threatening modern societies, including in the Arab world. This motivates work on detecting false and manipulated stories online. However, a bottleneck for this research is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-09 El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Tariq Alhindi , Hasan Cavusoglu

This paper describes the systems submitted to iSarcasm shared task. The aim of iSarcasm is to identify the sarcastic contents in Arabic and English text. Our team participated in iSarcasm for the Arabic language. A multi-Layer machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Nsrin Ashraf , Fathy Elkazaz , Mohamed Taha , Hamada Nayel , Tarek Elshishtawy

The rapid growth of the internet has increased the number of online texts. This led to the rapid growth of the number of online texts in the Arabic language. The enormous amount of text must be organized into classes to make the analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Sumaia Mohammed AL-Ghuribi , Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah

Target-based Stance Detection is the task of finding a stance toward a target. Twitter is one of the primary sources of political discussions in social media and one of the best resources to analyze Stance toward entities. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Mohammad Mehdi Jaziriyan , Ahmad Akbari , Hamed Karbasi

This paper presents our approach to the CheckThat! 2025 Task 1 on subjectivity detection, where systems are challenged to distinguish whether a sentence from a news article expresses the subjective view of the author or presents an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mohammad AL-Smadi