``What Is Your Evidence?'' A Study of Controversial Topics on Social Media

A Benchmark Dataset for Automatic Detection of Claims and Evidence in the Context of Controversial Topics

The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis

We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia. After a brief review of the related wo…

Telling Apart Tweets Associated with Controversial versus Non-Controversial Topics

In this paper, we evaluate the predictability of tweets associated with controversial versus non-controversial topics. As a first step, we crowd-sourced the scoring of a predefined set of topics on a Likert scale from no…

Biased or Not?: The Story of Two Search Engines

Search engines can be considered as a gate to the world of WEB, and they also decide what we see for a given search query. Since many people are exposed to information through search engines, it is fair to expect that se…

Tanbih: Get To Know What You Are Reading

We introduce Tanbih, a news aggregator with intelligent analysis tools to help readers understanding what's behind a news story. Our system displays news grouped into events and generates media profiles that show the gen…