• BIGIR at CLEF 2019: Automatic verification of Arabic claims over the web 

      Haouari, Fatima; Ali, Zien Sheikh; Elsayed, Tamer ( CEUR-WS , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      With the proliferation of fake news and its prevalent impact on democracy, journalism, and public opinions, manual fact-checkers become unscalable to the volume and speed of fake news propagation. Automatic fact-checkers ...
    • Re-ranking web search results for better fact-checking: A preliminary study 

      Yasser K.; Kutlu M.; Elsayed T. ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Even though Web search engines play an important role in finding documents relevant to user queries, there is little to no attention given to how they perform in terms of usefulness for fact-checking claims. In this paper, ...