One of the Western University campus newspapers, Western News, acknowledges community building efforts by a FIMS Professor, Dr. Sarah Roberts. “Faculty of Information and Media Studies professor Sarah Roberts has created something of a hub for analog game enthusiasts in the faculty – the FIMS Gaming Club, a group that meets Fridays to play and Read More …
Category: Announcements
Heritage Fair in London: Snapshots in Time
Heritage Fair. London: Snapshots in Time Saturday, February 13, 2016 (9 a.m. –3 p.m.) The Central London Public Library Branch at 251 Dundas St. Free & open to the public Here is a message that came from a former student of mine, Lisa Lawlis, who is currently on a co-op placement at the Western Libraries Read More …
Public Talk: Language of Deception: Looking at Tell-Tale Signs of Lying
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Location: London Public Library, Central Branch, Stevenson & Hunt Room A, 251 Dundas Street, London, Ontario, CANADA Announcement & MapCost: Free, part of #PublicInterest Lecture Series – FIMS Talks on Media & InformationI am excited to be invited to speak at the London Public Library Read More …
Easier Translation in ICTs
On 16 December the TNW News announced that “Google will soon let you translate messages in other languages without switching apps“. “At today’s Google for India event in New Delhi, Google’s vice president for product management Caesar Sengupta showed off a sexy upcoming feature in the company’s Translate service, which makes messaging in multiple languages Read More …
Multilingual Access to This Site
NO ENGLISH!? I mean, you can’t read English? Don’t let it be a barrier to accessing information on this website. It can now be automatically translated into 91 languages. Translated perfectly!? No, of course not. Rather imperfectly, unfortunately. Select TRANSLATE » button, and Google statistical machine translation (MT), known as Google Translate, will give you Read More …
ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting
Post Contributor: Yimin Chen.From November 6-10, members of the LiT.RL lab attended the 79th annual meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in St. Louis.Organized under the broad them of “research in and for the community,” the conference featured plenary talks by Aaron Doering on transformational learning and innovation in education and Read More …
New LiT.RL Project on News Verification
As the Director of the Language & Information Technology Research Lab, I’m very pleased to announce that the lab has received a thee-year funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to apply deception identification methods to the news context. In April 2015 we started working on identification of deliberately deceptive Read More …