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# 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

[**21** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**5** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/2021/#works) · [**108** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/2021/#works)

## 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 Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhindi-2021-arastance-multi-country-multi-domain/)**Tariq 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.12/)**Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino et al.*23 citations*
3. **[Improving Hate Speech Type and Target Detection with Hateful Metaphor Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.2/)**Jens Lemmens, Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans*20 citations*
4. **[Improving Cross-Domain Hate Speech Detection by Reducing the False Positive Rate ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.3/)**Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans*19 citations*
5. **[Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panda-2021-detecting-multilingual-covid-19-misinformation/)**Subhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan*16 citations · our summary*
6. **[DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hussein-2021-damascusteam-nlp4if2021-fighting-arabic-covid/)**Ahmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar*15 citations · our summary*
7. **[MEAN: Multi-head Entity Aware Attention Networkfor Political Perspective Detection in News Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.10/)**Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser*12 citations*
8. **[Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uyangodage-2021-transformers-fight-covid-19-infodemic/)**Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi*11 citations · our summary*
9. **[Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.7/)**Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Verónica Pérez-Rosas et al.*9 citations*
10. **[Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.18/)**Georgios Tziafas, Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Tommaso Caselli*9 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 Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhindi-2021-arastance-multi-country-multi-domain/)**Tariq 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.12/)**Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino et al.*23 citations*
3. **[Improving Hate Speech Type and Target Detection with Hateful Metaphor Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.2/)**Jens Lemmens, Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans*20 citations*
4. **[Improving Cross-Domain Hate Speech Detection by Reducing the False Positive Rate ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.3/)**Ilia Markov, Walter Daelemans*19 citations*
5. **[Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panda-2021-detecting-multilingual-covid-19-misinformation/)**Subhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan*16 citations · our summary*
6. **[DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hussein-2021-damascusteam-nlp4if2021-fighting-arabic-covid/)**Ahmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar*15 citations · our summary*
7. **[MEAN: Multi-head Entity Aware Attention Networkfor Political Perspective Detection in News Media ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.10/)**Chang Li, Dan Goldwasser*12 citations*
8. **[Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uyangodage-2021-transformers-fight-covid-19-infodemic/)**Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi*11 citations · our summary*
9. **[Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.7/)**Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Verónica Pérez-Rosas et al.*9 citations*
10. **[Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic with a Holistic BERT Ensemble ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.18/)**Georgios Tziafas, Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Tommaso Caselli*9 citations*
11. **[An Empirical Assessment of the Qualitative Aspects of Misinformation in Health News ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.11/)**Chaoyuan Zuo, Qi Zhang, Ritwik Banerjee*8 citations*
12. **[Never guess what I heard... Rumor Detection in Finnish News: a Dataset and a Baseline ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.6/)**Mika Hämäläinen, Khalid Alnajjar, Niko Partanen et al.*7 citations*
13. **[R00 at NLP4IF-2021 Fighting COVID-19 Infodemic with Transformers and More Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qarqaz-2021-r00-nlp4if-2021-fighting-covid/)**Ahmed Qarqaz, Dia Abujaber, Malak Abdullah*7 citations · our summary*
14. **[Identifying Automatically Generated Headlines using Transformers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.1/)**Antonis Maronikolakis, Hinrich Schütze, Mark Stevenson*6 citations*
15. **[Multi Output Learning using Task Wise Attention for Predicting Binary Properties of Tweets : Shared-Task-On-Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.16/)**Ayush Suhane, Shreyas Kowshik*6 citations*
16. **[iCompass at NLP4IF-2021–Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.17/)**Wassim Henia, Oumayma Rjab, Hatem Haddad et al.*6 citations*
17. **[Classification of Censored Tweets in Chinese Language using XLNet ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.21/)**Shaikh Sahil Ahmed, Anand Kumar M.*5 citations*
18. **[Generalisability of Topic Models in Cross-corpora Abusive Language Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.8/)**Tulika Bose, Irina Illina, Dominique Fohr*5 citations*
19. **[NARNIA at NLP4IF-2021: Identification of Misinformation in COVID-19 Tweets Using BERTweet ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.14/)**Ankit Kumar, Naman Jhunjhunwala, Raksha Agarwal et al.*5 citations*
20. **[Understanding the Impact of Evidence-Aware Sentence Selection for Fact Checking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.4/)**Giannis Bekoulis, Christina Papagiannopoulou, Nikos Deligiannis*3 citations*
21. **[Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance and Bias of Text-Based Deception Detection Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4if-1.5/)**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 Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhindi-2021-arastance-multi-country-multi-domain/) [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/)**Tariq Alhindi, Amal Alabdulkarim, Ali Alshehri, et al.*2021 · 41 citations*
2. **[Detecting Multilingual COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media via Contextualized Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/panda-2021-detecting-multilingual-covid-19-misinformation/) [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/)**Subhadarshi Panda, Sarah Ita Levitan*2021 · 25 citations*
3. **[DamascusTeam at NLP4IF2021: Fighting the Arabic COVID-19 Infodemic on Twitter Using AraBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hussein-2021-damascusteam-nlp4if2021-fighting-arabic-covid/) [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/)**Ahmad Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Ammar Joukhadar*2021 · 17 citations*
4. **[Transformers to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uyangodage-2021-transformers-fight-covid-19-infodemic/) [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/)**Lasitha Uyangodage, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Hansi Hettiarachchi*2021 · 16 citations*
5. **[R00 at NLP4IF-2021 Fighting COVID-19 Infodemic with Transformers and More Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qarqaz-2021-r00-nlp4if-2021-fighting-covid/) [Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4if/)**Ahmed Qarqaz, Dia Abujaber, Malak Abdullah*2021 · 9 citations*

## Top topics

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

[Semitic languages (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/)

## Top authors

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

[🧑‍🔬**Ali Alshehri**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-alshehri/) · [🧑‍🔬**Amal Alabdulkarim**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amal-alabdulkarim/) · [🧑‍🔬**Muhammad Abdul-Mageed**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/) · [🧑‍🔬**Preslav Nakov**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tariq Alhindi**1 work here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tariq-alhindi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Sarah Ita Levitan**1 work here · 25 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-ita-levitan/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nada Ghneim**1 work here · 17 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nada-ghneim/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hansi Hettiarachchi**1 work here · 16 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-hettiarachchi/) · [🧑‍🔬**Tharindu Ranasinghe**1 work here · 16 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tharindu-ranasinghe/) · [🧑‍🔬**Malak Abdullah**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malak-abdullah/)

## Top institutions

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

[🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🎓**Birmingham City University** Birmingham · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/birmingham-city-university/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**Jordan University of Science and Technology** Irbid · Jordan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/jordan-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Münster** Münster · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-munster/) · [🎓**Hunter College** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hunter-college/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**University at Buffalo, State University of New York** Buffalo · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-at-buffalo-state-university-of-new-york/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/)

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