On 28 April 2023, Dr. Rubin will present at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington as part of theView 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.
New Project Underway: Assessments of Text-Generating AI
A new Project, entitled “Assessments of Text-Generating AI” is a series of mini-studies (January – July 2023), thematically tied to AI evaluation text-generators like ChatGPT,View More
Four ASIS&T2022 Conference Posters on Display at FIMS (FNB, 4th floor)
Four co-authored posters from the Project, entitled “Rewiring for Happiness” (2021-22). are now on display around the FIMS and Nursing Building (FNB), Western University, London,View More
LiT.RL Team Went to #ASIST2022 Conference in Pittsburgh
On 29 October – 1 November, 2022, four of us from LiT.RL, FIMS, Western University took part in the ASIS&T2022 Conference. We managed to doView More
Practical Workshop: Student Mini-Thesauri Presentations
On 15 November 2022, students in the Fall 2022 LIS9202: “Thesaurus Construction & Metadata” course (at FIMS, Western University, London Canada) participated in informal presentationsView More
Sodiq Onaopalo Delivers a Speech on Automation in Libraries
On 2 December 2022, Sodiq Onaopalo guest lectured in Dr. Rubin’s LIS9002: “Information Organization, Curation & Access” class. His talk was entitled “Semantic Web, BigView More
London Public Library (LPL) Guest Talk at Western by Anne O’Sullivan and Mary Horman
On 9 December 2022, two local librarians, Anne O’Sullivan (Manager, Customer Services and Branch Operations) and Mary Horman (Cataloguer, Collections Services) from the London PublicView More
Zoom Guest Talk by Dr. Pierson (Germany) on Careers in Metadata
On 6 December 2022, Cameron M. Pierson, Phd, MLIS, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany, delivered an invited talk “On Professional Identities Beyond MLIS: Careers inView More
LiT.RL Team Is Presenting Three Posters at ASIST2022, Pittsburgh
On 31 October 2022 (7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT), the LiT.RL team is taking part in the ASIS&T2022 Conference In-Person Poster Session, present threeView More
Book on Misinformation & Disinformation Published (Rubin, 2022)
Abstract How do we detect, deter, and prevent the spread of mis- and disinformationwith the human eye and AI? How does theory inform the practice,View More