On Thursday, March 27 @1:30 Erin Bourgard will present her guest talk “The Power of Controlled Vocabularies in Information Access” to the graduate students inView More
Category: Blog
This blog is for Dr. Rubin’s LiT.RL Lab updates, FIMS announcements, and Western University campus event alerts. Dr. Rubin relates technology-related news, reflections on language technologies or natural language processing. She sometimes writes about languages and cultures. Her lab students may contribute occasional entries on any of the above, or on broader information organization and LIS issues.
April Fool’s Poster Session: What are you willing to believe?
On 1 April 2025, FIMS graduate students enrolled in the Winter 2025 “Misinformation and Viral Deception” course presented their term-long projects with their evidence-based findingsView More
Student Poster Session: “AI and I in My Future Profession”
🌟 Curious about the buzz around AI? Discover how automated conversations, prompt engineering, and NLP insights are shaping YOUR future profession! 🧠 Join us for “AI andView More
New Four-Year Project on Digital Subjective Well-Being
The Lab is starting a new four-year project, entitled “Well-Being in Social Media: Applying Natural Language Processing Analyses to Discover Thriving Online Communities, Promote Healthier SocialView More
Dr. Rubin is Teaching a New Course on Conversational AI Design and Uses: “How Computers Talk to Us” (Fall 2024)
This course is a gentle introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing for students with primarily humanities backgrounds (FIMS 9732/“How Computers Talk to Us:View More
Dr. Rubin Gives a Keynote Talk at Concordia
On 29 April 2024, Dr. Victoria Rubin presented a conference keynote entitled “How to Combat the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation?” at Concordia University. TheView More
OLA Online Conference Invites FIMS Grad Students to Showcase Their Case Studies on Manipulative Deceptive Behaviours
Digital Odyssey “Tackling Misinformation and Disinformation: Innovations & Challenges” is an online event organized by the Ontario Library Association (OLA) and planned by OLITA Council,View More
Dr. Nadia Conroy on Metadata in Tech Industry
On 11 April 2024, Dr. Nadia Conroy gave a guest talk entitled “Metadata in Tech; Data Practices for Software Companies” in Dr. Rubin’s Winter 2024View More
Dr. Grant Campbell Talks about Linked Data and the Metadata Tradition
On 4 April 2024, Dr. Grant Campbell (FIMS, Western) gave a guest talk entitled “Linked Data and the Metadata Tradition: Turning the Library Catalogue InsideView More
Winter 2024 End-of-Course Poster Session: “Lies and Scams and Myths. Oh My!”
On 9 April 2024, our FIMS community and the wider Western community were invited to attend an end-of-course poster session prepared by graduate students whoView More