Skip to content

Victoria Rubin

Prof. Research Lab Director. Writer. Speaker.
  • Home
    • About
    • Publications
    • In the Media & Guest Talks
    • Contact
  • Teaching
    • My Teaching Philosophy
    • Info Org, Curation & Access / LIS9002 – Fall’22
    • Thesaurus Construction & Metadata / LIS9202 – Fall’22
    • Misinformation & Viral Deception / FIMS9328 – Winter’23
    • Multilingual Information Access / LIS 9733 / 9843
    • Natural Language Processing / FIMS 9732
  • Research
    • Research Lab
    • Projects
      • Rewiring for Happiness (2021-22)
      • News Verification (2015-19)
        • Data-To-Go
          • Satirical and Legitimate News Database (S-n-L News DB 2015-2016)
          • Access POLIT-FALSE-n-LEGIT NEWS DB 2016-2017
          • Falsified and Legitimate Political News Database (POLIT-FALSE-n-LEGIT News DB 2016-2017)
        • Tools-To-Go
      • Deception Detection (2010-14)
      • Previous Projects
  • Students
    • Alex Mayhew
    • Dominique Kelly
    • Nicole Delellis
    • Sarah Cornwell
    • Graduates
      • Yimin Chen
      • Toluwase Asubiaro
      • Chris Brogly
      • Nadia Conroy
  • Book
  • Blog

Category: Language Technology

  • Blog
  • Language Technology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • News Verification

Disinformation & Misinformation Triangle Published in Journal of Documentation

VRubin2021WPOwner September 23, 2019 No Comments

The Disinformation and misinformation triangle (Rubin, 2019) is a conceptual model for ‘fake news’ epidemic, causal factors and interventions. Author’s Keywords: disinformation, misinformation, deception; Internet,View More

  • Blog
  • Conferences
  • Deception
  • Events
  • Language Technology
  • News Verification
  • Technology

Rubin’s Speech at 2017 “Fake News” Workshop is on YouTube

VRubin2021WPOwner January 29, 2018 No Comments

On 5 October 2017 Dr. Rubin gave a speech in Montréal at the Workshop entitled “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème”View More

  • Announcements
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Language Technology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • News Verification
  • Technology

Team Talk at the FIMS Seminar Series

VRubin2021WPOwner January 11, 2018 No Comments

Strategies That Sell: Revealing Deceptive and Misleading Practices in Digital MediaWednesday, March 7, 2018 @12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. in FNB 4070Presented by Victoria Rubin,View More

  • Blog
  • Conferences
  • Language Technology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • News Verification

Keynote Speech at the Information Without Borders Conference 2018

VRubin2021WPOwner January 11, 2018 No Comments

On February 13, 2018 Dr. Rubin presented at the Information Without Borders Conference. The working title of her talk is The Disinformation Triangle: The EpidemiologyView More

  • Blog
  • Deception
  • Events
  • Language Technology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • News Verification
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized

Response to Theory and Criticism Talk

VRubin2021WPOwner January 11, 2018 1 Comment

On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Andrew Woods, a first year PhD student from Theory and Criticism at Western, presented his talk entitled “The Faked DeathView More

  • Blog
  • Community Outreach
  • Language Technology
  • Multiculturalism
  • Multilingual Access
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Uncategorized
Multilingual information access

Crossing Language Barriers Poster Session at FIMS, Western

VRubin2021WPOwner November 3, 2017 No Comments

Quiz: What languages are the signs in? What do you think they say? Do they have anything in common? “Crossing Language Barriers for Information ProvisionView More

  • Blog
  • Deception
  • Lab In The Media
  • Language Technology
  • News Verification
  • Technology
podcast; Australia; deceptionsatire

Featured on the Australian “Talk the Talk” Podcast

VRubin2021WPOwner October 30, 2017 No Comments

Professor Rubin and Sarah Cornwell were interviewed by Daniel Midgley, an Australian radio show host on deception and satire detection for his podcast, “Talk theView More

  • Blog
  • Conferences
  • Events
  • Language Technology
  • News Verification
fake news; deception; natural language processing; press conference

Invited Speech at “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème”, Montreal

VRubin2021WPOwner October 30, 2017 No Comments

Dr. Rubin was invited to speak at the Workshop “Les fausses nouvelles : le nouveau visage d’un vieux problème” [Fake news: a new face ofView More

  • Blog
  • Lab In The Media
  • Language Technology
  • Technology
Satire Detectorsatirical fakes

Research Profiled in University Affairs Magazine

VRubin2021WPOwner October 30, 2017 No Comments

Our research team’s research was profiled in the article “Researchers at Western build satire detector for news websites” on universityaffairs.ca on August 14, 2017. [UniversityView More

  • Blog
  • Conferences
  • Language Technology
  • Posters

LiT.RL presents at 2017 Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Toronto

VRubin2021WPOwner May 9, 2017 No Comments

The lab had several presentations at the Annual Conference of The Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS2017) and at the the Annual Conference of CanadianView More

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Next page
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • Amazon


Blog Posts
  • AI
  • Announcements
  • Blog
  • Book
  • Community Outreach
  • Conferences
  • Curiosities
  • Deception
  • Deceptive Native Ads
  • Events
  • FIMS classes
  • Jobs
  • Lab In The Media
  • Language Technology
  • Multiculturalism
  • Multilingual Access
  • Natural Language Processing
  • News Alert
  • News Verification
  • Online Landscape
  • Posters
  • Software
  • Study
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized

Archives

  • August 2022
  • December 2021
  • July 2021
  • April 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • July 2019
  • March 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015

Victoria Rubin | Designed by: Theme Freesia | WordPress | © Copyright All right reserved