social media

Harnessing Abstractive Summarization for Fact-Checked Claim Detection

Social media platforms have become new battlegrounds for anti-social elements, with misinformation being the weapon of choice. Fact-checking organizations try to debunk as many claims as possible while staying true to their journalistic processes but …

Civique: Using Social Media to detect Urban Emergencies

We present the Civique system for emergency detection in urban areas by monitoring micro blogs like Tweets. The system detects emergency related events, and classifies them into appropriate categories like 'fire', 'accident', 'earthquake', etc. We …