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ISCApad Archive » 2018 » ISCApad #245 » Events » Other Events » (2018-11-29) Workshop by 'Language Intelligence @ Work' ,on Fake News and AI Challenges, Vienna, Austria |
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Saturday, November 10, 2018 by Chris Wellekens |
Fake News and Other AI Challenges for the Workshop by 'Language Intelligence @ Work' Nov 29-30, 2018. Location: weXelerate, Praterstrasse 1, 1020, Vienna, Austria Website: https://www.liatwork.com/ The News Media are confronted with major challenges and opportunities arising from game-changing technological developments that took place over the last decade. This event will showcase how AI-powered technologies can help news organisations safeguard the truthfulness and trustworthiness of their sources, stay in control of the news gathering and delivery process and empower their newsrooms, their journalists and, ultimately, their readership. LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE AND THE FAKE NEWS CHALLENGE The news production and security industries are undergoing a growing threat from fake news across every media, as are all organisations where accurate, time-bound news on persons, entities and events in specific locations are critical to their business and security. This threat is two-fold. It is partly due to the ubiquity of digital news sites and an avid readership whose built-in biases are being fed by advertising that can in turn fund the fake news producers. And partly to the existence of digital tools that make it easier to produce such fake content automatically on a massive scale over the internet and especially social media. The majority of content concerned by the fake news syndrome is textual in nature, whether addressed to readers or listeners. Fake images associated with information sources also play a large role in purveying false information. But text is massively variegated in form (due to the range of words and linguistic structures that can be used), and also comes in different channels (speech/text) and languages. This adds further complexity to the task of fake news identification.
LANGUAGE INTELLIGENCE IN FAKE NEWS DETECTION
Is there a reliable automatable decision procedure for identifying the truth or falsity of news items, and can it be integrated into a standard technology stack? The following automated Language Intelligence (LI) processes are central to the identification of fake news:
The aim of this workshop is to present various use cases that address the fake news problem using Language Intelligence, and open up broader discussion into how LI can extend its applicability within the news and intelligence industries in their effort to track down fake information. If you want to rgister for the workshop, please go to https://www.liatwork.com/register. |
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