Maria Liakata¶
Affiliation: University of Warwick, Department of Computer Science
Maria Liakata is a researcher specializing in natural language processing with expertise in rumour detection, event detection, and sentiment analysis in social media.
Key work¶
- Stance Classification in Rumours as a Sequential Task Exploiting the Tree Structure of Social Media Conversations
- Sequential Approach to Rumour Stance Classification with Branch-LSTM — best system in SemEval-2017 Subtask A
- Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey
- All-in-one: Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification
- RumourEval 2019 — shared task extending 2017 with Reddit data
- SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval — shared task on rumour veracity and stance
- PHEME project — multi-disciplinary research on rumour verification