Workshop in relation to the "Fakespeak" project
Join a workshop in relation to the project "Fakespeak - the language of fake news" on Tuesday and Wednesday 16th and 17th of February.
Photo credit: Silje Susanne Alvestad
The linguistics-driven project "Fakespeak - the language of fake news. Fake news detection based on linguistic cues" involves a core team of linguists and computer scientists based in Norway and the UK. They seek to reveal the grammatical and stylistic features of the language of fake news, referred to as "Fakespeak", in English, Norwegian and Russian. The overall aim of the project is to enable fake news detection systems to discover and flag potentially harmful fake news items in a more accurate, efficient and timely manner than offered by current state-of-the-art systems.
The aim with the workshop is to provide a background for the project, and shed light on the problem of fake news and misinformation from different perspectives.
Programme Tuesday 16th of February
Public session I. Zoom link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/64464785977?pwd=Uk9Jb2lLekJnSHM2MUlNSkN4Ynlsdz09
Meeting ID: 644 6478 5977 Passcode: 401614
- 9:00-9:15 Silje Susanne Alvestad and Christine Meklenborg Nilsen (Head of Department, ILOS) Welcome
- 9:15-9:45 Edson C. Tandoc Jr. (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; https://nanyang.academia.edu/EdsonTandoc/CurriculumVitae). Scholarly definitions of fake news
- 9:50-10:20 Sharon Levy (University of California, Santa Barbara; https://sharonlevy.github.io/publications/). On Fakeddit: A New Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for Fine-grained Fake News Detection, and related works from William Wang’s lab
- 10:20-10:30 Break
- 10:30-11:00 Geir Hågen Karlsen (Stabsskolen; https://www.forsvaret.no/forskning/ansatte-FHS/karlsen-geir-hagen). Influence operations in social and other kinds of media, political communication, one-sided history writing etc. The case of Russia and China
- 11:00-12:00 Closed session + break
Public session II. Zoom-link: https://uio.zoom.us/j/64909464694?pwd=RU9mamxZMFEzSnhZV3VJK0t4aHV2Zz09
Meeting ID: 649 0946 4694 Passcode: 828781
- 12:00-12:45 Industrial collaboration partners. How do two of our industrial collaboration partners encounter and counter fake news and other kinds of disinformation? How do the fact-checkers at Faktisk.no work? What kind of research findings would be of most interest to them? How can we collaborate? (Through a knowledge exchange?)
- 12:00-12:20 NTB (Geir Terje Ruud/Sarah Sørheim; https://www.ntb.no/) – presentation + discussion
- 12:20-12:45 Faktisk.no (Kristoffer Egeberg; https://www.faktisk.no/) – presentation + discussion
- 12:45-13:00 Closed session II - summary
Programme Wednesday 17th of February
- 9:00-9:30 Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada; http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/). The language of fake news and misinformation
- 9:30-10:00 Helena Woodfield
(https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/research/postgraduateresearch/profiles/woodfield-helena.aspx) and Jack Grieve (University of Birmingham; https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx). The language of fake news. Corpus studies - 10:00-10:15 Break
- 10:15- Potentially collaborating projects (10-15 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for Q and A/discussion)
- 10:15-10:40 PAR-TS (Tor Olav Grøtan, SINTEF Trondheim; https://www.sintef.no/alle-ansatte/ansatt/?empid=383;https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/pandemic-rhetoric-trust-and-social-media/index.html)
- 10:40-11:00 Threat-defuser (Laura Janda, University of Tromsø; https://en.uit.no/ansatte/person?p_document_id=41561; https://threat-defuser.org/)
- 11:00-11:20 SCAM (Bente Kalsnes, Kristiania University College and member of Fakespeak´s Advisory Board; https://www.kristiania.no/en/about-kristiania/ansatte/school-of-communication-leadership-and-marketing/institutt-for-kommunikasjon/bente-kalsnes/; https://www.oslomet.no/en/research/research-projects/scam)
- 11:30-13:00 Closed session III + break