30.3116, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Qatar

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Subject: 30.3116, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Qatar

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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:49:27
From: Preslav Nakov [preslav.nakov at gmail.com]
Subject: SocInfo-2019: Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online News and Social Media

 
Full Title: SocInfo-2019: Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online News and Social Media 

Date: 18-Nov-2019 - 18-Nov-2019
Location: Doha, Qatar 
Contact Person: Preslav Nakov
Meeting Email: preslav.nakov at gmail.com
Web Site: https://propaganda.qcri.org/bias-misinformation-workshop-socinfo19/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Sep-2019 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online
News and Social Media
 
In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of social media, which have
enabled people to virtually share information with a large number of users
with little-to-no regulation or quality control. On the one hand, this has
enabled anyone with a computer and internet access to rapidly create and
disseminate content. On the other hand, it has also opened the door for
malicious users, including automated bots, to rapidly spread disinformation,
misinformation, and propaganda, which can now reach audiences at an
unprecedented scale. This has resulted in the proliferation of false
information that is typically created either (a) to attract network traffic in
order to secure financial gain through advertising revenue (e.g. clickbait),
or (b) to affect individual people beliefs - something that can ultimately
lead to influencing major events such as political elections or views on
public health. There are strong indications that false information was
weaponized at an unprecedented scale during the 2016 U.S. and the 2018
Brazilian presidential campaigns, among many others. The workshop aims to
bring together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss bias,
disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda in online news and in social
media.


Call for Papers:

First Call for Abstracts
 
Workshop website:
https://propaganda.qcri.org/bias-misinformation-workshop-socinfo19/

Abstracts submission deadline: September 5, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard
Time)
Co-located with Social Informatics 2019, November 18-21, Doha, Qatar.
 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

- Bias
- Bots
- Check-worthiness
- Claim extraction
- Claim source detection
- Clickbait
- Deep fakes
- Disinformation
- Echo chambers
- Fact-checking
- Fake reviews
- Harassment/bullying
- Hate speech
- Hyper-partisanship
- Misinformation
- Offensive language
- Polarization
- Propaganda identification/analysis
- Seminar users
- Source reliability
- Stance detection
- Supporting evidence retrieval
- Trolls
- Trust
- Truth

Submission Format:

We kindly ask you to submit abstracts addressing one of the topics above from
the perspective of use cases, tools, resources, and preliminary experimental
results.
Abstracts should be in Socinfo format (see
https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guide
lines), 1-2 pages  long. Abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop organizers
and the authors of selected abstracts will be assigned a time slot for a short
presentation (15 minutes each) to present their ideas. Selected abstracts will
be made available on this website. 
Send your submission to socinfo-bias-workshop at googlegroups.com.
 
Workshop Organisers: 

Giovanni da San Martino (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Università di Bologna)
Jisun An (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)
Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU)
Banu Akdenizli (Northwestern University, Qatar)
Marc O. Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Grant Franklin Totten (Aljazeera)




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