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Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2020 International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media
Publications associées (32)
It’s All Relative: Learning Interpretable Models for Scoring Subjective Bias in Documents from Pairwise Comparisons
Matthias Grossglauser, Aswin Suresh, Chi Hsuan Wu
We propose an interpretable model to score the subjective bias present in documents, based only on their textual content. Our model is trained on pairs of revisions of the same Wikipedia article, where one version is more biased than the other. Although pr ...
2024Where Did the News Come From? Detection of News Agency Releases in Historical Newspapers
Since their beginnings in the 1830s and 1840s, news agencies have played an important role in the national and international news market, aiming to deliver news as fast and as reliable as possible. While we know that newspapers have been using agency conte ...
2023Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework
This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023Virtual reality intervention alleviates dyspnoea in patients recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia
Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Florian Lance, Oliver Alan Kannape, Sylvain Cardin, Sophie Jacqueline Andrée Betka, Jemina Fasola, Aline Schmit
Background Immersive virtual reality (iVR)-based digital therapeutics are gaining clinical attention in the field of pain management. Based on known analogies between pain and dyspnoea, we investigated the effects of visual respiratory feedback on persiste ...
Sheffield2023United States politicians' tone became more negative with 2016 primary campaigns
Robert West, Andreas Oliver Spitz, Ahmad Abu-Akel
There is a widespread belief that the tone of political debate in the US has become more negative recently, in particular when Donald Trump entered politics. At the same time, there is disagreement as to whether Trump changed or merely continued previous t ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2023Combating Online Scientific Misinformation
The drastic shift towards digital communication in our mediasphere has caused a profound change in the production and consumption of information, which in turn has substantial implications on the social and political landscape. Misinformation, as a side ef ...
EPFL2022How Did Europe's Press Cover Covid-19 Vaccination News? A Five-Country Analysis
Understanding how high-quality newspapers present and discuss major news plays a role towards tackling disinformation, as it contributes to the characterization of the full ecosystem in which information circulates. In this paper, we present an analysis of ...
New York2022Synthetic Disinformation Attacks on Automated Fact Verification Systems
Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources. However, the reali ...
ASSOC ADVANCEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE2022The Role of Compromised Accounts in Social Media Manipulation
In recent years we have seen a marked increase in disinformation including as part of a strategy of so-called hybrid warfare. Adversaries not only directly spread misleading content but manipulate social media by employing sophisticated techniques that exp ...
EPFL2022Using “proof of personhood” to tackle social media risks
The ease of creating fake virtual identities plays an important role in shaping the way information — and misinformation — circulates online. Social media platforms are increasingly prominent in shaping public debates, and the tension between online anonym ...
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