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Shaden Shaar

PhD Student, Cornell University
Verified email at cornell.edu
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That is a known lie: Detecting previously fact-checked claims

S Shaar, GDS Martino, N Babulkov, P Nakov�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2020 - arxiv.org
The recent proliferation of "fake news" has triggered a number of responses, most notably
the emergence of several manual fact-checking initiatives. As a result and over time, a large …

Automated fact-checking for assisting human fact-checkers

…, A Barr�n-Cede�o, P Papotti, S Shaar…�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2021 - arxiv.org
The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from
professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians and …

A survey on multimodal disinformation detection

…, F Silvestri, D Dimitrov, GDS Martino, S Shaar…�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of offensive content online such as fake news,
propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. While initially this was mostly about …

Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic identification and verification of claims in social media

…, N Babulkov, B Hamdan, A Nikolov, S Shaar…�- Experimental IR Meets�…, 2020 - Springer
We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab
featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks compose …

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic in social media: A holistic perspective and a call to arms

F Alam, F Dalvi, S Shaar, N Durrani…�- Proceedings of the�…, 2021 - ojs.aaai.org
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to
share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories. …

Fighting the COVID-19 infodemic: Modeling the perspective of journalists, fact-checkers, social media platforms, policy makers, and the society

F Alam, S Shaar, F Dalvi, H Sajjad, A Nikolov…�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2020 - arxiv.org
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of
disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first …

Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news

…, A Barr�n-Cede�o, R M�guez, S Shaar…�- Experimental IR Meets�…, 2021 - Springer
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs
of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to …

The role of context in detecting previously fact-checked claims

S Shaar, F Alam, GDS Martino, P Nakov�- arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07423, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent years have seen the proliferation of disinformation and fake news online. Traditional
approaches to mitigate these issues is to use manual or automatic fact-checking. Recently, …

The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! lab on detecting check-worthy claims, previously fact-checked claims, and fake news

…, A Barr�n-Cedeno, R M�guez, S Shaar…�- Advances in Information�…, 2021 - Springer
We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Cross-Language
Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting various tasks related to …

SemEval-2021 task 6: Detection of persuasion techniques in texts and images

D Dimitrov, BB Ali, S Shaar, F Alam, F Silvestri…�- arXiv preprint arXiv�…, 2021 - arxiv.org
We describe SemEval-2021 task 6 on Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and
Images: the data, the annotation guidelines, the evaluation setup, the results, and the …