Dr. Ahmet Aker

Dr. Ahmet Aker
- E-Mail:
- aker@is.inf.uni-due.de
- Telephone:
- +49 (0) 203 / 379 - 3401
- Room:
- LF 137
Lecturer
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- Student project: IR meets INLs v. 2.0
- Summer 2021
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- Lecture: Information Mining
- Winter 2020/2021
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- Student project: Information Nutrition Labels meet IR
- Winter 2020/2021
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- Seminar: Contextual IR
- Winter 2020/2021
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- Student project: Information Retrieval based on INLs
- Summer 2020
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- Lecture: Information Mining
- Winter 2019/2020
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- Student project: Information Nutrition Labeling for better IR - v4
- Winter 2019/2020
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- Seminar: Recent Trends in IR
- Winter 2019/2020
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- Student project: Information Nutrition Labeling for better IR - v3
- Summer 2019
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- Student project: Voice Queries in Product Search with Vague Conditions
- Summer 2019
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- Student project: Information Nutrition Labeling for better IR - v2
- Winter 2018/2019
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- Lecture: Information Mining
- Winter 2018/2019
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- Seminar: Vague Conditions in Object Search
- Winter 2018/2019
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- Student project: Information Nutrition Labeling for better IR
- Summer 2018
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- Lecture: Information Retrieval
- Summer 2018
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- Student project: Design and implementation of an intelligent annotation tool -- 2nd Project
- Winter 2017/2088
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- Student project: Design and implementation of an intelligent annotation tool
- Summer 2017
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- Seminar: Mining arguments from well-formed and user generated content in Social Media
- Summer 2017
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- Seminar: User-Generated Content in Social Media Vol.2
- Winter 2016
Tutor
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- Lecture: Information Retrieval
- Summer 2020
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- Lecture: Internet-Suchmaschinen
- Summer 2020
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- Lecture: Information Retrieval
- Summer 2019
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- Lecture: Internet-Suchmaschinen
- Summer 2019
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- Lecture: Information Engineering
- Winter 2018/2019
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- Lecture: Information Mining
- Winter 2017/2088
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- Lecture: Information Retrieval
- Summer 2017
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- Lecture: Internet-Suchmaschinen
- Summer 2017
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- Lecture: Information Mining
- Winter 2016
Publications
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- Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz; Ahmet Aker; Emina Kurtic; Laura Plaza (2019).
- Beyond opinion classification: Extracting facts, opinions and experiences from health forums. PloS one 14(1)
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- Inguna Skadina; Robert J. Gaizauskas; Bogdan Babych; Nikola Ljubesic; Dan Tufis; Andrejs Vasiljevs (eds.) (2019).
- Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation. , Springer
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- Ahmet Aker; Alexandru Ceausu; Yang Feng; Robert J. Gaizauskas; Sabine Hunsicker; Radu Ion; Elena Irimia; Dan Stefanescu; Dan Tufis (2019).
- Mapping and Aligning Units from Comparable Corpora. In Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation,
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- Bogdan Babych; Fangzhong Su; Anthony Hartley; Ahmet Aker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Paul D. Clough; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2019).
- Cross-Language Comparability and Its Applications for MT. In Using Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of Machine Translation,
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- Judith Meinert; Ahmet Aker; Nicole Krämer (2019).
- The Impact of Twitter Features on Credibility Ratings-An Explorative Examination Combining Psychological Measurements and Feature Based Selection Methods. In: Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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- Meinert, Judith; Mirbabaie, Milad; Dungs, Sebastian; Aker, Ahmet (2018).
- Is It Really Fake? -- Towards an Understanding of Fake News in Social Media Communication. In: Meiselwitz, Gabriele (ed.): Social Computing and Social Media. User Experience and Behavior. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
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- Aker, Ahmet; Fuhr, Norbert (2018).
- The Information Retrieval Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Datenbank-Spektrum
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- Sebastian Dungs; Ahmet Aker; Norbert Fuhr; Kalina Bontcheva (2018).
- Can Rumour Stance Alone Predict Veracity?. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics
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- Jan Kowollik; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- Uni-DUE Student Team: Tackling fact checking through decomposable attention neural network. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification (FEVER)
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- Elena Lloret; Laura Plaza; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- The challenging task of summary evaluation: an overview. Language Resources and Evaluation 52(1)
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- Razan Masood; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- The Fake News Challenge: Stance Detection using Traditional Machine Learning Approaches. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - Volume 3: KMIS,
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- Michael Rist; Ahmet Aker; Norbert Fuhr (2018).
- Towards Making Sense of Online Reviews Based on Statement Extraction. In: Proc. 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP 2018)
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- Firas Sabbah; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- Creating Comparable Corpora through Topic Mappings. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Alfred Sliwa; Yuan Man; Ruishen Liu; Niravkumar Borad; Seyedeh Ziyaei; Mina Ghobadi; Firas Sabbah; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- Multi-lingual Argumentative Corpora in English, Turkish, Greek, Albanian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Arabic. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Miyazaki, Japan.
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- Kevin Vincentius; Piyush Aggarwal; Ali Sahan; Birte Högden; N Madan; Anusha Bangaru; Claudia Schwenger; Farid Muradov; Ahmet Aker (2018).
- Information Nutrition Labels : A Plugin for Online News Evaluation. In: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extractionand VERification (FEVER)
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- Arkaitz Zubiaga; Ahmet Aker; Kalina Bontcheva; Maria Liakata; Rob Procter (2018).
- Detection and resolution of rumours in social media: A survey. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 51(2)
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- Aker, Ahmet; Petrak, Johann; Sabbah, Firas (2017).
- An Extensible Multilingual Open Source Lemmatizer. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017
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- Ahmet Aker; Emina Kurtic; A. R. Balamurali; Monica Lestari Paramita; Emma Barker; Mark Hepple; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2016).
- A Graph-Based Approach to Topic Clustering for Online Comments to News. In: Advances in Information Retrieval - 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy, March 20-23, 2016. Proceedings9626 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer
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- Ahmet Aker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Emina Kurtic; Adam Funk; Emma Barker; Mark Hepple; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2016).
- Automatic label generation for news comment clusters. In: INLG 2016 - Proceedings of the Ninth International Natural Language Generation Conference, September 5-8, 2016, Edinburgh, UK, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Murad Abouammoh; Kashif Shah; Ahmet Aker (2016).
- Creation of comparable corpora for English-Urdu, Arabic, Persian. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, Portoro\vz, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016., European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Emma Barker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Adam Funk; Emina Kurtic; Ahmet Aker; Jonathan Foster; Mark Hepple; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2016).
- What's the Issue Here?: Task-based Evaluation of Reader Comment Summarization Systems. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation LREC 2016, Portoro\vz, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016., European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Ahmet Aker; Fr\'ed\'eric Blain; Andr\'es Duque; Marina Fomicheva; Jurica Seva; Kashif Shah; Daniel Beck (2016).
- USFD at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Putting different State-of-the-Arts into a Box. In: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval@NAACL-HLT 2016, San Diego, CA, USA, June 16-17, 2016, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Emma Barker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Ahmet Aker; Emina Kurtic; Mark Hepple; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2016).
- The SENSEI Annotated Corpus: Human Summaries of Reader Comment Conversations in On-line News. In: Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2016 Conference, The 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 13-15 September 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Nattapong Sanchan; Kalina Bontcheva; Ahmet Aker (2016).
- Understanding Human Preferences for Summary Designs in Online Debates Domain. Polibits 54
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- Ahmet Aker; Emina Kurtic; Mark Hepple; Robert J. Gaizauskas; Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio (2015).
- Comment-to-Article Linking in the Online News Domain. In: Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2015 Conference, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2-4 September 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2015).
- Generating descriptive multi-document summaries of geo-located entities using entity type models. JASIST 66(4)
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- Ahmet Aker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Emma Barker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2014).
- Bootstrapping Term Extractors for Multiple Languages. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014., European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Ahmet Aker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Marcis Pinnis; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2014).
- Bilingual dictionaries for all EU languages. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014., European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Ahmet Aker (2014).
- Entity type modeling for multi-document summarization : generating descriptive summaries of geo-located entities. PhD thesis
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- Ahmet Aker; Monica Lestari Paramita; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2013).
- Extracting bilingual terminologies from comparable corpora. In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, 4-9 August 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria, Volume 1: Long Papers, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio; Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2013).
- Summarizing Online Reviews Using Aspect Rating Distributions and Language Modeling. IEEE Intelligent Systems 28(3)
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- Ahmet Aker; Laura Plaza; Elena Lloret; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2013).
- Do humans have conceptual models about geographic objects? A user study. JASIST 64(4)
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- Elena Lloret; Laura Plaza; Ahmet Aker (2013).
- Analyzing the capabilities of crowdsourcing services for text summarization. Language Resources and Evaluation 47(2)
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- Ahmet Aker; Yang Feng; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2012).
- Automatic Bilingual Phrase Extraction from Comparable Corpora. In: COLING 2012, 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference: Posters, 8-15 December 2012, Mumbai, India, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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- Ahmet Aker; Xin Fan; Mark Sanderson; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2012).
- Investigating Summarization Techniques for Geo-Tagged Image Indexing. In: Advances in Information Retrieval - 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings7224 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer
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- Ahmet Aker; Mahmoud El-Haj; M-Dyaa Albakour; Udo Kruschwitz (2012).
- Assessing Crowdsourcing Quality through Objective Tasks. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2012, European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Ahmet Aker; Evangelos Kanoulas; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2012).
- A light way to collect comparable corpora from the Web. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2012, European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Emina Kurtic; Bill Wells; Guy J. Brown; Timothy Kempton; Ahmet Aker (2012).
- A Corpus of Spontaneous Multi-party Conversation in Bosnian Serbo-Croatian and British English. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2012, European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Monica Lestari Paramita; Paul D. Clough; Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2012).
- Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2012, European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Inguna Skadina; Ahmet Aker; Nikos Mastropavlos; Fangzhong Su; Dan Tufis; Mateja Verlic; Andrejs Vasiljevs; Bogdan Babych; Paul D. Clough; Robert J. Gaizauskas; Nikos Glaros; Monica Lestari Paramita; Marcis Pinnis (2012).
- Collecting and Using Comparable Corpora for Statistical Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2012, European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Ahmet Aker; Trevor Cohn; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2012).
- Redundancy reduction for multi-document summaries using A* search and discriminative training. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Exploiting Large Knowledge Repositories, Castell\'on de la Plana, Spain, September 7, 2012882 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org
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- Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2011).
- Understanding the types of information humans associate with geographic objects. In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 24-28, 2011, ACM
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- Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio; Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2011).
- STARLET: Multi-document Summarization of Service and Product Reviews with Balanced Rating Distributions. In: Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on, Vancouver, BC, Canada, December 11, 2011, IEEE Computer Society
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- Elena Lloret; Laura Plaza; Ahmet Aker (2011).
- Multi-Document Summarization by Capturing the Information Users are Interested in. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011, 12-14 September, 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, RANLP 2011 Organising Committee
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- Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2010).
- Generating Image Descriptions Using Dependency Relational Patterns. In: ACL 2010, Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, July 11-16, 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, The Association for Computer Linguistics
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- Ahmet Aker; Trevor Cohn; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2010).
- Multi-Document Summarization Using A* Search and Discriminative Learning. In: Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2010, 9-11 October 2010, MIT Stata Center, Massachusetts, USA, A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL, ACL
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- Inguna Skadina; Ahmet Aker; Voula Giouli; Dan Tufis; Robert J. Gaizauskas; Madara Mierina; Nikos Mastropavlos (2010).
- A Collection of Comparable Corpora for Under-resourced Languages. In: Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Baltic HLT 2010, Riga, Latvia, October 7-8, 2010219 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press
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- Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2010).
- Model Summaries for Location-related Images. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, 17-23 May 2010, Valletta, Malta, European Language Resources Association
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- Xin Fan; Ahmet Aker; Martin Tomko; Philip Smart; Mark Sanderson; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2010).
- Automatic image captioning from the web for GPS photographs. In: Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR 2010, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 29-31, 2010, ACM
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- Laura Plaza; Elena Lloret; Ahmet Aker (2010).
- Improving Automatic Image Captioning Using Text Summarization Techniques. In: Text, Speech and Dialogue, 13th International Conference, TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6-10, 2010. Proceedings6231 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer
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- Ahmet Aker; Robert J. Gaizauskas (2009).
- Summary Generation for Toponym-referenced Images using Object Type Language Models. In: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2009, 14-16 September, 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria, RANLP 2009 Organising Committee / ACL
Diploma, Master and Bachelor theses
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- Attention Detection in Tweets
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Retrieving True/False Tweets for an Input Tweet
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Political Bias Detection in Tweets
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Propaganda Detection in Tweets
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Sentiment Detection in Tweets
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Merging external news knowledge with the tweet
- Reserved master thesis
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- Detecting Misinformation in Tweets
- Reserved master thesis
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- Stance detection in Tweets
- Reserved master thesis
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- Three Class Stance detection in Tweets
- Reserved master thesis
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- Tweet Analysis UI
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Tweet Analysis Back End
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Detecting whether a tweet contains a check worthy claim or not.
- Reserved master thesis
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- Analyzing the Impact of Meteorological Factors on the Occurrence of Aneurysmal Subarachnoidal Hemorrhage
- Reserved master thesis
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- Retrieving Tweets given judged Claims
- Reserved bachelor thesis
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- Understanding INLs.
- Running master thesis
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- Explainable Hate Speech Detection in Twitter
- Running master thesis
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- Information Nutrition Label driven IR
- Running master thesis
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- Investigating similarity metrics for news retrieval
- Running bachelor thesis
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- Topic focused Argument Mining
- Finished master thesis
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- Argument clustering
- Finished master thesis
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- Clustering online reviews
- Finished master thesis
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- Labeling review clusters
- Finished master thesis
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- Towards multi-lingual argument mining: Comparable passage extraction from comparable corpora.
- Finished master thesis
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- Towards multi-lingual argument mining: Creating multi-lingual comparable corpora.
- Finished master thesis
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- Towards Fake News Detection
- Finished master thesis
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- Fake News Detection Through Information Nutrition Extraction.
- Finished master thesis
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- Towards Fake News Detection based on Information Nutrition Labels.
- Finished master thesis
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- Fact Verification using Large Textual Sources.
- Finished master thesis
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- Determining comments worthy to read.
- Finished master thesis
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- Developing an Easy to Use Social Media Analysis Tool
- Finished master thesis
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- Is this Tweet Bad or Good News?
- Finished master thesis
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- Determining Filter Bubbles in Twitter
- Finished master thesis
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- Clustering of Tweets according to Topic
- Finished master thesis
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- Annotating Professional Reviews
- Finished bachelor thesis
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- Analysing Google News for Bias
- Finished bachelor thesis
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- Performing Twitter User Credibility
- Finished master thesis
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- Topical Diversity of News Sources
- Finished master thesis