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
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.
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
Keynote Speech at the Information Without Borders Conference 2018
On February 13, 2018 Dr. Rubin presented at the Information Without Borders Conference. The working title of her talk is The Disinformation Triangle: The EpidemiologyView More
Talk at IEEE Women in Engineering: Algorithms with a Moral Compass
Come join the London sections of IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Young Professionals for “Algorithms with a Moral Compass: Detecting Lies,View More
Response to Theory and Criticism Talk
On Thursday, January 11, 2018, Andrew Woods, a first year PhD student from Theory and Criticism at Western, presented his talk entitled “The Faked DeathView More