2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology

ASIS&T 2015 Annual Meeting

written by Yimin Chen.

2015 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and TechnologyFrom 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 by Sarah Morton, who spoke on building non-academic partnerships and creating impact through knowledge exchange.

Victoria, Yimin, and Niall presented three posters based on our News Verification Project at ASIS&T and enjoyed many stimulating and informative conversations with attendees from around the world.

1.

ASIST Yimin ChenChen, Y., Conroy, N. J., & Rubin, V. L. (2015). News in an Online World: The Need for an “Automatic Crap Detector.” In The Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST2015), Nov. 6-10, St. Louis.

2.

ASIST 2015 Vicki Rubin presenting posterRubin, V. L. Chen, Y.,& Conroy, N. J. (2015). Deception Detection for News: Three Types of Fakes. In The Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST2015), Nov. 6-10, St. Louis.

3.

ASIST 2015 Niall Conroy presenting poster
ASIST 2015 Niall Conroy presenting the poster.

Conroy, N. J., Chen, Y., & Rubin, V. L. (2015). Automatic Deception Detection: Methods for Finding Fake News. In The Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIST2015), Nov. 6-10, St. Louis.

 

 

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