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Arkaitz Zubiaga

Researcher at Queen Mary University of London

Publications -  189
Citations -  5738

Arkaitz Zubiaga is an academic researcher from Queen Mary University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 162 publications receiving 4345 citations. Previous affiliations of Arkaitz Zubiaga include National University of Distance Education & University of Warwick.

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Birds of a feather check together : leveraging homophily for sequential rumour detection

TL;DR: A novel approach to rumour detection that learns from the sequential dynamics of reporting during breaking news in social media to detect rumours in new stories and proves the effectiveness of the consideration of the sequential nature of social media data and the usefulness of homophily as a feature for rumours detection.
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Social media mining for journalism

TL;DR: Social media has been adopted as a significant source by professional journalists, and conversely, citizens are able to use social media as a form of direct reportage as well as an additional showcase for news dissemination.
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QMUL-SDS at SCIVER: Step-by-Step Binary Classification for Scientific Claim Verification

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TL;DR: This paper presents team QMUL-SDS’s participation in the SCIVER shared task and proposes an approach that performs scientific claim verification by doing binary classifications step-by-step.
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Cross-lingual Capsule Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media

TL;DR: This paper proposed a cross-lingual capsule network learning model coupled with extra domain-specific lexical semantics for hate speech (CCNL-Ex), which achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
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SMILES: Twitter Emotion Classification using Domain.

TL;DR: This work studies a model-based adaptive SVM approach as it believes its flexibility and efficiency is more suitable for the task at hand and sheds light on how different ratios of labelled target-domain data used for adaptation can affect classification performance.