The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting is held in Vancouver, Canada this year with a theme of “Building & Sustaining AnView 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.
Fall Term 2018 is in Full Swing
Welcome to new and returning FIMS students at Western University! The new energy is in the air… Is that what they call “the thirst forView More
Interview on SparkDialog Podcast
Our team was interviewed by Elizabeth Fernandez, the host of SparkDialog, a podcast about science and society. You can listen to the full recording orView More
FIMS Seminar Series Talk on Deceptive & Misleading Practices in Digital Media
Here is the formal FIMS announcement for an upcoming March 7th talk at FIMS. The same talk was posted via this blog as well. HopeView More
Chen’s Interview on CBC London
Yimin Chen is nearing his PhD thesis completion and his topic on Internet trolls is sparking interest of the local media outlets. You can listenView More
Chen on Classification of Internet Trolls
In the latest mediations workshop Yimin Chen, PhD Candidate Library Information Science, presents his work titled “I’m Not Evil. I’m Chaotic Neutral!”: On the ClassificationView More
Cognitive Psychologist Talks about Languages Shaping Our Minds
In 29 January 2018 NPR’s Podcast “Lost in Translation” Dr. Lera Boroditsky, a cognitive science professor at the University of California, San Diego, talked aboutView More
Rubin’s Speech at 2017 “Fake News” Workshop is on YouTube
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
IEEE Women in Engineering Talk Well Received
On 23 January 2018 Victoria Rubin was invited to speak to a group of engineering students and researchers. The talk was about creating more morally-savvyView More
Team Talk at the FIMS Seminar Series
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