Papers by Andreas Blombach
A Corpus of German Reddit Exchanges (GeRedE) (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Reddit is a popular online platform combining social news aggregation, discussion and microblogging. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to filter out German data and further pre-processing steps to find out what is linguistically peculiar in the German data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method filters out German data and includes metadata and annotation layers. |
EmpiriST Corpus 2.0: Adding Manual Normalization, Lemmatization and Semantic Tagging to a German Web and CMC Corpus (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | EmpiriST corpus is a manually tokenized and part-of-speech tagged corpus of German web and CMC data. |
| Approach: | They extend the corpus with manually tokenized annotation layers for word form normalization, lemmatization and lexical semantics. |
| Outcome: | The EmpiriST corpus is a manually tokenized and part-of-speech tagged corpus of German web and CMC data. |
Automatic Identification of COVID-19-Related Conspiracy Narratives in German Telegram Channels and Chats (2024.lrec-main)
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Philipp Heinrich, Andreas Blombach, Bao Minh Doan Dang, Leonardo Zilio, Linda Havenstein, Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Fabian Schäfer
| Challenge: | Existing methods to identify and track conspiracy narratives are difficult to track and use because of their short-lived nature. |
| Approach: | They analysed 1,000 German Telegram posts tagged with 14 fine-grained conspiracy narrative labels by three independent annotators. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods compare well with off-the-shelf methods and human performance. |