Classifies short texts such as Tweets based on whether they contain offensive language

Service that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to identify text contained within images. This is a multi-lingual service and not restricted to Latin scripts. It works...

Attempts to classify whether a text is hyper-partisan or not. This system won first prize in the Hyperpartisan News Detection task at SemEval 2019

Burstiness, the tendency of interaction events to be heterogeneously distributed in time, is critical to information diffusion in physical and social systems. However, an...

Tracking information diffusion is a non-trivial task and it has been widely studied across different domains and platforms. The advent of social media has led to even more...

Nowadays, Social Media are a privileged channel for news spreading, information exchange, and fact checking. Unexpectedly for many users, automated accounts, known as social...

People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in Online Social Networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of...

Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.

Stance classification can be a powerful tool for understanding whether and which users believe in online rumours. The task aims to automatically predict the stance of replies...

The proliferation of fake news is a current issue that influences a number of important areas of society, such as politics, economy and health. In the Natural Language...

The commercial pressure on media has increasingly dominated the institutional rules of news media, and consequently, more and more sensational and dramatized frames and biases...

Service that takes two news article texts and attempts to determine whether they refer to the same underlying news story. The articles may be in the same or in different...

Algorithms that tackle the problem of minimizing average/maximum hitting time (BMAH/BMMH) between different social network groups, given fixed shortcut edges. The...

Report on the Humane-AI microproject "Pluralistic Recommendation in News". It contains details on how the two relevant datasets were built, a link to the two, and details...

This experiment is part the project "Streams of conspiratorial folklore" that investigates online media as a stream of performances, rather than as archives of documents. Our...

This experiment is part the project "Streams of conspiratorial folklore" that investigates online media as a stream of performances, rather than as archives of documents. Our...