On March 15, 2019, Sarah Cornwell, LIS PhD Candidate, gave a talk, entitled “Covert Advertising: How marketing is hidden in Canadian Newspapers” as part ofView 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.
Wong on Motivations for Sharing News on Social Media
On March 12, 2019, Lola Wong, LIS PhD Candidate, gave a talk, entitled “Motivations for Sharing News & Non-personal Content on Social Media” as partView More
Compton’s Talk “From Slump to Trump Media”
On March 1, 2019, Dr. James Compton, FIMS Faculty, gave a talk, entitled ““From Slump to Trump Media” as part of the “Guest Speaker SeriesView More
Stacey on Making of Fact News
On February 15, 2019, Megan Stacey, the London city hall reporter for the London Free Press, gave a talk, entitled “The Making of the FactView More
Sadler on Hunting Court Case Documents
On February 8, 2019, John R. Sadler, Director and Senior Librarian, Law Library at Western University gave a talk, entitled “Docket to Deadline: Hunting courtView More
Chen on Psychology of Mis/Disinformation
On January 25, 2019 Yimin Chen, LIS PhD Candidate, gave a talk, entitled “To err is human; to troll, divine: The psychology of mis/disinformation” asView More
Interdisciplinary Speaker Series on Misinformation/Disinformation in FIMS Graduate Course
In Winter 2019 academic term, I created and delivered a new interdisciplinary course at FIMS, Western. The course is further described on my Teaching Website.View More
LiT.RL NV Browser Passes Peer-Review for Journal of Open Source Code Software (JOSS)
Congratulations to the whole LiT.RL team! Our peer-reviewed JOSS publication is out as of March 9th, 2019! Details: In December 2018 we released the sourceView More
Release of the LiT.RL News Verification Browser Source Code: Detecting Clickbait, Satire, and Falsified News
On 6 December 2018 the Language & Information Technology Research Lab (LiT.RL) from Western University (Canada) released the source code for the LiT.RL News VerificationView More
“Misinformation” is the Word of the Year 2018 for Dictionary.com
A brief video from the TIME Magazine highlights the absence of intent in misinformation as opposed to disinformation. About TIME: “A 24/7 news publication withView More