Papers by Michiel Van Der Meer
HintsOfTruth: A Multimodal Checkworthiness Detection Dataset with Real and Synthetic Claims (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Identifying checkworthy claims is the first step, but detection methods struggle with content that is (1) multimodal, (2) from diverse domains, and (3) synthetic. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset for multimodal checkworthiness detection with 27K real-world and synthetic image/claim pairs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset compares lightweight text-based encoders to multimodal models but only focus on claim-like content. |
An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in Argument Summarization (2024.eacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Current methods for summarizing arguments miss an important aspect of diversity . authors examine three aspects of diversity in argument summarization . |
| Approach: | They propose three aspects of diversity that are important for accommodating multiple perspectives. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models lack the diversity of opinions, sources, and annotators. |
Annotator-Centric Active Learning for Subjective NLP Tasks (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Annotator-centric active learning addresses the high costs of collecting human annotations by strategically annotating the most informative samples. |
| Approach: | They propose annotator-centric active learning which incorporates an annotation strategy following data sampling to approximate the full diversity of human judgments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves data efficiency and performs well in annotator-centric evaluations. |
Facilitating Opinion Diversity through Hybrid NLP Approaches (2024.naacl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Modern democracies face a critical issue of declining citizen participation in decision-making. |
| Approach: | They propose a three-layered hierarchy for representing perspectives obtained by a mixture of human intelligence and large language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach can extract high-level insights into arguments employed by citizens or motivations underlying their decisions. |