Dissemination of the CIVIC project
Publications
A. Guamei, M. Al-Rakhami, M. Mehedi Hassan, V. Hugo C. de Alburquerque, D. Camacho. “An Effective Approach for Rumor Detection of Arabic Tweets Using eXtreme Gradient Boosting Method”. Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. In Press, April 2021.
Huertas-García, Á., Martín, A., Huertas-Tato, J., & Camacho, D. (2021). “Profiling Hate Speech Spreaders on Twitter: Transformers and Mixed Pooling”. In CLEF 2021
Huertas-García, Á., Huertas-Tato, J., Martín, A., & Camacho, D. (2021). “CIVIC-UPM at CheckThat! 2021: integration of transformers in misinformation detection and topic classification. In CLEF 2021”
Villar-Rodríguez, G., Huertas-Tato, J., Martín, A. & Camacho, D. (2021, September). “A la desinformación le gusta la compañía: Representación de bulos de Twitter sobre la COVID-19 mediante embeddings”. In XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence(pp. 523-528). 978-84-09-30514-8
Huertas-García, A., Martín, A., Huertas-Tato, J. & Camacho, D. (2021, September). “Evaluación de modelos multilingües pre-entrenados en similitud semántica para la lucha contra la desinformación”. In XIX Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence(pp. 523-528). 978-84-09-30514-8
Journals, special issues and workshops
I Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Disinformation (AIDisinfo 2021)
For the Conference of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA)
InfodemicsAIHC: Special Issue on Infodemics
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (AIHC)
Conferences and keynotes
Iberian Media Research and Fact-Checking (IBERIFIER): Kick-off meeting
Description of how the CIVIC project works and how it can be integrated in the fact-checking process
Universidad de Granada: discussion "Post Truth to debate: Technology and Post Truth"
Introduction to the problem of misinformation in social media and explanation of CIVIC, with a focus on the analysis of social networks
LVIII monographic course of national defense (CEDESEN): cyberspace as a conflict space
Explanation of the concept 'Cyberspace', the presence of information disorders inside it and how projects like CIVIC work to mitigate their effects
5th EAI International Conference on Advanced Hybrid Information Processing (EAI ADHIP 2021)
Summary of the CIVIC project as part of the presentation of how AI helps us counter information disorders, such as misinformation
CHIST-ERA 2021 European Conference
Dissemination of the CIVIC project and the facts verification tool we are developing
Resources
Interviews
Interview on La SER: "Misinformation 'does not come from media, it goes through other ways"
Broadcasted on Hoy por Hoy Navarra, Radio Pamplona
Interview on RTVE: "Pandemic, paradise of fake news"
Broadcasted on Más Cerca, from Radio 5
Press releases and prizes
CIVIC, one of the three selected projects by Fundación BBVA
News from Technical University of Madrid
The app of CIVIC, among the six finalists in the Call for solutions 'Tech against Disinformation'
This call is an initiative of Digital Future Society in collaboration with CCMA, EFE Verifica, Newtral and Verificat
The member of CIVIC Álvaro Huertas, finalist in the Contest #HiloTesis, receives his diploma
All PhD students could participate by publishing a Twitter thread explaining their thesis. Huertas' thesis is about misinformation
Talks and debates
VIII Bioinformatics Student Symposium
Work selected to be presented in the event on October 18th and 19th
Professional careers in data journalism and data visualization
Third session of Agora MPVD
Universities and other entities working on CIVIC
Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis research group (AI+DA)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – Campus Sur
C/ Alan Turing, s/n (Carretera de Valencia, Km 7)
28031 Madrid, Spain
alejandro.martin@upm.es