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Victoria Rubin

Prof. Research Lab Director. Writer. Speaker.
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        • Mini-Study 1. ChatGPT Assessment for Assignment Plagiarism
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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

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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

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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

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Job in Natural Language ProcessingMachine LearningResearch and DevelopmentWeb Development

Looking for a Summer Grad RA (Western student)

VRubin2021WPOwner April 12, 2017 No Comments

May 9th, 2017 Update. Sorry the position has been filled. No more applications accepted. I’m looking to hire a new graduate assistant, a Western student,View More

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Deception detectionSatire DetectorSatirical fake news

Satire Detector Online: How-To-Use Guide

VRubin2021WPOwner April 12, 2017

After over year of R&D and testing, our lab has put out an automated Satire Detector which is currently available online – PC or mobileView More

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Visit from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

VRubin2021WPOwner October 4, 2016 No Comments

LiT.RL received a visit from Professors Tan Seng Chee, Kevin Hartman, and Betsy Ng, researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. The conversationView More

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Digital Deception Detection project on GradCast

VRubin2021WPOwner April 5, 2016 No Comments

For his second interview on Gradcast, LiT.RL lab team member, Yimin Chen, returns to talk about our Digital Deception Detection project, funded by the GovernmentView More

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Poster Session: Language & Computer Tech

VRubin2021WPOwner March 29, 2016 No Comments

Western University, North Campus Building, FIMS, Graduate Research Center (2nd floor) Tuesday, April 5th @ 9:00 – 11:50 a.m. You are invited to the end-of-courseView More

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Invited Talk: From Data to Business Value

VRubin2021WPOwner March 14, 2016 No Comments

“From Data to Business Value: Principles, Technologies and Organizational Forms” An invited talk by Dimitri Popolov, PhD, Data Scientist & Architect at DataSkill Tuesday, MarchView More

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IBM Watson’s NLP + Japanese Robotics

VRubin2021WPOwner January 25, 2016 No Comments

The IBM CEO, Ginni Rometty, gives a keynote at the CES2016, one of the biggest consumer tech shows that was held in Las Vegas inView More

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