Hi Everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, December
13, 2017 at 11:15 AM (PST) 18:15 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoVwus1Owtk
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.
This month's presentation:
*The State of the Article Expansion Recommendation System*
By Leila Zia
Only 1% of English Wikipedia articles are labeled with quality class Good
or better, and 37% of the articles are stubs. We are building an article
expansion recommendation system to change this in Wikipedia, across many
languages. In this presentation, I will talk with you about our current
thinking of the vision and direction of the research that can help us build
such a recommendation system, and share more about one specific area of
research we have heavily focused on in the past months: building a
recommendation system that can help editors identify what sections to add
to an already existing article. I present some of the challenges we faced,
the methods we devised or used to overcome them, and the result of the
first line of experiments on the quality of such recommendations (teaser:
the results are really promising. The precision and recall at 10 is 80%.)
--
Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the September 2017 research newsletter and looking for contributors. Please take a look at: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN201709 and add your name next to any paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication date is on December 14 UTC. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
Highlights from this month:
• Etude de la véracité des articles médicaux sur Wikipédia
• Nonhuman language agents in online collaborative communities: Comparing Hebrew Wikipedia and Facebook translations
• Reading Wikipedia to Answer Open-Domain Questions
• Relative Quality and Popularity Evaluation of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles
• Roles and Success in Wikipedia Talk Pages: Identifying Latent Patterns of Behavior
• Wikipedia Verification Check: A Chrome Browser Extension
If you have any question about the format or process feel free to get in touch off-list.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Research:Newsletter
*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ***
THE WEB CONFERENCE 2018
Lyon, France April 23-27, 2018
ALTERNATE TRACK ON
JOURNALISM, MISINFORMATION AND FACT CHECKING
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/misinformation-cfp/
Misinformation has been spreading on the Web since its inception as an
hyperconnected searchable medium, but recent developments, both in
technology, the information ecosystem, and society at large, have made
it more prominent, calling for more investigation on the topic. As
"fake news" (false or inaccurate articles fabricated for deceptive and
financial purposes and presented as news reports), computational
propaganda, astroturf, and ideological polarization become more common
on the Web and the social Web, a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary
approach is needed.
This track welcomes two types of contributions: a) research papers, b)
perspective pieces. Contributions should explore the range of
computational, social, cognitive, economic, and communication topics
related to the above phenomena. Specifically, the track will examine
recent computational approaches for detecting misinformation and
propaganda on the Web and social media, as well as proposals to
improve fact checking, critical thinking, information and media
literacy, crowdsourcing, and societal decision-making processes.
Contributions introducing new benchmark data sets or methods are
especially welcome.
Accepted papers will be published in the official satellite
proceedings.
Special issue
A selection of the best contributions will be invited to be submitted,
after proper revision and extension, for consideration for the
upcoming special issue on "Combating Digital Misinformation and
Disinformation" of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.
Misinformation Track Chairs
* Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (Indiana University Network Science
Institute)
* Kristina Lerman (USC-Information Sciences Institute)
* Panagiotis Takis Metaxas (Wellesley College)
Contact: misinfochairs (at) www2018.thewebconf.org
Submission guideline
Submissions should follow the guideline information on the general Web
Conference. In addition, they should obey the following guidelines:
Page limit
Submissions should be formatted to not exceed eight pages. The page
limit includes any diagrams or appendices but does not include
references that have no page limit. No author identification: PDF
files must be ready for double-blind review, that is, the submitted
document should not include author information and should not include
citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship
apparent.
Originality
Submissions must represent new and original work. Concurrent
submissions are not allowed. Papers that have been published in or
accepted to any peer-reviewed journal or conference/workshop with
published proceedings, are currently under review or will be submitted
to other meetings or publications while under review in this
conference may not be submitted. However, submissions that are
available online and/or have been previously presented orally or as
posters in venues with no formal proceedings, are allowed. Note that
if they are available online (e.g., via arXiv) and not anonymous,
authors should make an effort to preserve anonymity, e.g., by making
the title and abstract of the conference submission sufficiently
different from one available online, and so limit the risk that a
direct search will reveal their identity.
Proper attribution
Additionally, the ACM has a strict policy against plagiarism and
self-plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism).
All prior work must be appropriately cited.
Submission website
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2018satellites
(opens Dec 06)
Important dates
* Full papers submission form open: 06 December 2017
* Full papers submission deadline: 05 January 2018
* Papers acceptance notification: 14 February 2018
* Papers final version due: 25 February 2018
All submission deadlines are at 9:00pm HAST.
Rights and Permissions
See copyright note on main CFP page:
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/#copyright
Program Committee
* Harith Alani (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University)
* Jisun An (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
University)
* Joshua Benton (Nieman Lab, Harvard University)
* Guido Caldarelli (Institute for Complex System, Italian National
Research Council)
* Carlos Castillo (Eurecat - Technology Centre of Catalonia)
* James Caverlee (Texas A&M University)
* Meeyoung Cha (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology /
Facebook, Inc.)
* Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo)
* Nicholas Diakopoulos (University of Maryland)
* Lucia Falzon (Defence Science and Technology Group)
* Emilio Ferrara (Information Sciences Institute, University of
Southern California)
* Aram Galstyan (Information Sciences Institute, University of
Southern California)
* Kelly Garrett (Ohio State University)
* Amira Ghenai (University of Waterloo)
* Yevgeniy Golovchenko (University of Copenhagen)
* Nir Grinberg (Northeastern University / Harvard University)
* Noriko Hara (Indiana University)
* Naeemul Hassan (University of Mississippi)
* Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
* Jeff Jarvis (Tow-Knight Center, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)
* Prakruthi Karuna (George Mason University)
* Brian Keegan (University of Colorado Boulder)
* Johannes Kiesel (Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar)
* Hemank Lamba (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Gerry Lanosga (Indiana University)
* Dongwon Lee (Penn State University)
* Xiao Ma (Cornell Tech)
* Alexios Mantzarlis (International Fact-Checking Network, Poynter
Institute)
* Winter Mason (Facebook, Inc.)
* Gregory Maus (Indiana University)
* Miriam Metzger (University of California Santa Barbara)
* An Mina (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
University)
* Tanushree Mitra (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Elaheh Momeni (University of Vienna)
* Fred Morstatter (Information Sciences Institute, University of
Southern California)
* Eni Mustafaraj (Wellesley College)
* Christine Ogan (Indiana University)
* John Paolillo (Indiana University)
* David Rothschild (Microsoft Research)
* Giancarlo Ruffo (University of Turin)
* Kazutoshi Sasahara (Nagoya University)
* Nishanth Sastry (King's College London)
* Craig Silverman (Buzzfeed)
* Emmanuel Vincent (Climate Feedback)
* Tim Weninger (University of Notre Dame)
* Christo Wilson (Northeastern University)
* Jun Yang (Duke University)
* Cong Yu (Google Research)
* Amy Zhang (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
--
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <glciampagl(a)gmail.com> ∙ Assistant Research
Scientist
IU Network Science Institute <http://iuni.iu.edu/> ∙ glciampaglia.com
News [image: 🕫]*WWW 2018* ∙ Alternate track on Journalism, Misinformation,
and Fact Checking:
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/misinformation-cfp/
I am helping to organise an Open Panel at 4S Sydney, August 29 - September
1 2018 (https://4s2018sydney.org/) around "Cultures of Fact Travel". Hoping
that there will be some Wikipedia/WikiData/citizen science scholars in
Sydney. If you're looking at production/evaluation/distribution of factual
knowledge in digitally-mediated environments, please apply! Abstracts
close: Feb 1st, 2018.
79. Cultures of fact travel
Organisers: Dr Heather Ford, University of New South Wales; Professor
Christopher W. Anderson (University of Leeds), Dr Lucas Graves (University
of Oxford)
This panel invites research that addresses how facts and knowledge claims
are represented in online spaces, how they are evaluated and verified, the
ways in which they face opposition or reach consensus, and/or how they
travel through the infrastructures of the Internet. A large variety of
sites and practices have emerged to host and distribute facts in online
environments. New facts are born digital in the form of databases, data
visualisations, online dictionaries and encyclopaedic entries while facts
that existed before the Internet are digitised and encoded using the rules
and grammar of software. In this environment, facts are produced and
represented using software for visualising data and exporting
visualisations into Web-friendly formats, where facts are verified on fact
checking platforms and where facts are distributed and shared using
software such as the ‘share this’ button at the end of a newspaper article,
a ‘cite this’ button on a scientific journal article, or a retweet function
on Twitter. In order for a fact to travel, it needs to move from beyond its
origins in the lab, the institution, company, field, or community to new
audiences. Sometimes this translation happens between institutions,
sometimes it happens between fields, or between countries, continents or
languages. This panel will host different approaches to the production,
evaluation, and distribution of facts in digitally-mediated environments.
Open panel paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to
250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and
contributions to STS.
When submitting papers to open panels on the abstract submission platform,
you will select the Open Panel you are submitting to. Papers submitted to
an open session will be reviewed by the open session organizers and will be
given first consideration for that session. Papers not included in the
session to which they were submitted will be considered for other sessions.
Dear colleagues,
We are very excited to announce that Northwestern University and
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO
<https://www.nico.northwestern.edu/>) is once again hosting the annual
International
Conference on Computational Social Science from July 12-15, 2018
<http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/ic2s2/2018.aspx>.
Our Call for Abstracts for presentations has just opened, and our chairs
and committee members thought members of your group might be interested.
Below is a link with further information; feel free to forward to others if
interested as well.
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/IC2S2/IC2S
22018-CallForAbstracts.pdf
Sincerely,
Yasmeen Khan
Business Coordinator, NICO
Hi,
This conference could be interesting to some Wiki(p|m)edia researchers on
this list, in particular the session on "data science and machine learning
for development and humanitarian action":
---------------------------
SE04-HUM: “Data science and machine learning for development and
humanitarian action”
Session leader: Robert West, DLAB, EPFL
It is widely anticipated that data science in general and machine learning
in particular, will revolutionize our society as a whole. Due to ever
larger and more fine-grained data sets, as well as advances in computing
hardware and learning algorithms, we are bound to see a whole new world of
opportunities to bring about ground-breaking changes, which could expedite
the development of low- and middle-income countries. This session will look
into promising applications of data science in development and humanitarian
action.
---------------------------
Extended abstract are due on January 5. Please let me know if you have any
questions.
Bob
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: EPFL Tech4Dev <tech4dev(a)epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:12 PM
Subject: TR: (Please Disseminate Through your Networks) Second Call for
Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNESCO
Chair in Technologies for Development,Tech4Dev 2018. 27-29 June 2018,
SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL, Lausanne.
To: Robert West <robert.west(a)epfl.ch>
*Dear Colleagues, *
*Are you interested in the development of innovative technology solutions
to advance inclusive social and economic development in the Global South?*
*The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts)* for the *5th
International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for
Development* has been officially launched.
*Tech4Dev 2018,* gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused
on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the
development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the
Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders –
academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners,
and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global
South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will
take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in
multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
*Tech4Dev 2018* invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or
anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to
submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts).
<https://cooperation.epfl.ch/2016Tech4Dev/Call2/AbstractGuidelines_1>
Submissions
should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also
acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and
economic development.
*Core Thematic Areas:*
• Technologies for *Humanitarian Action*
• *Medical Technologies*
• Science and Technology for *Disaster Risk Reduction*
• Technologies for *Sustainable Access to Energy*
• *ICT for Development*
• Technologies for *Sustainable Habitat and Cities*
*Crosscutting Themes: *
- Strengthening the research-policy nexus in the *implementation of the
SDGs*
- Opportunities and Challenges in *Quality (Rigorous) Impact
Evaluations:* Lessons from the academia and the field
- Development Engineering: *Training Global Engineers*
- *Open science:* an opportunity for the global south?
- Heart Money - the role of venture capitalism in *enabling social
outcomes*
- *Blockchain and the BoP*: a disruptive technology for economic
inclusion?
- *Development Engineering* in the Private Sector
- Building bridges *among global high-tech hubs in the African context*
Proposals for * Papers (Extended Abstracts)* should be submitted through
the conference’s online submission platform
<https://www.conftool.com/Tech4Dev2018>, using the prescribed template
<https://cooperation.epfl.ch/2016Tech4Dev/Call2/AbstractGuidelines_1#Submiss…>
no later than *5 January 2018. Papers (Extended Abstracts) should be
oriented towards the Conference’s Breakout Sessions. You can find the list
of Sessions on the Second Call for Papers Document (Attached to the
present Email). *
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference
websitehttps://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018
We would be grateful if you could also help us disseminate the attached
material to all your contacts, networks, etc.
If you could include a link to our website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Te
ch4Dev2018 that would be much appreciated.
We are looking forward to seeing you in *Lausanne in June 2018!*
With Kind Regards,
*Alfredo Kägi*
UNESCO Chair Conference Coordinator
__________________________________________
Cooperation and Development Center
UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development
EPFL-ENT-CODEV
Te: +41 (0)21 6935053 <+41%2021%20693%2050%2053>
Email: Tech4Dev(a)epfl.ch
CM 2 - Station 10,
CH-1015 Lausanne, Bureau CM2200
★ Visit our 2018 Conference on Technologies for Develpment website
<http://cooperation.epfl.ch/op/edit/2018Tech4Dev_1>
Interesting and timely CFP... -J
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tiziana Catarci, ACM JDIQ Editor-in-Chief <pubs(a)acm.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 8:00 AM
Subject: JDIQ Call for Papers: Special issue on Combating Digital
Misinformation and Disinformation
To: jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org
ACM Journal of Data
and Information Quality
*Special issue on Combating Digital Misinformation and Disinformation*
Guest Editors
Naeemul Hassan, University of Mississippi
Chengkai Li, University of Texas at Arlington
Jun Yang, Duke University
Cong Yu, Google Research
------------------------------
*Context*
Spread of misinformation and disinformation is one of the most serious
challenges facing the news industry, and a threat to democratic societies
worldwide. The problem has reached an unprecedented level via social media,
where contents can be created and disseminated to a large audience with
little to zero cost, and revenues are driven by click-through rates.
Researchers from multiple disciplines have proposed various strategies,
built automated and semi-automated systems, and recommended policy changes
across the media ecosystem. Recently, researchers have also explored how
artificial intelligence techniques, particularly machine learning and
natural language processing, can be leveraged to combat falsehoods online.
In this special issue of JDIQ, we aspire to provide an overview of
innovative research primarily at the intersection of information
credibility, machine learning, and data science, from theory to practice,
with a focus on combating misinformation and disinformation.
*Topics*
Specific topics within the scope of the call include, but are not limited
to, the following:
- Automated question-answering for fact-checking
- Crowdsourced fact-checking
- Data collection, labeling and extraction for fact-checking
- Detection of fake-news spreading social bots
- Knowledge bases for fact-checking
- Models and methods for tracking the propagation and derivation of
online data
- Multi-modal deception detection
- Natural language processing approaches to fact checking
- Role of AI agents in fake news propagation
- Role of metadata and provenance management in assessing veracity of
online information
- Semantic parsing and verification of fake news
- Sustainable fact-checking framework
- Techniques to detect and limit misinformation and disinformation in
social media
- Truth discovery from structured and unstructured data
*Expected contributions:*
We welcome two types of contributions:
- Research manuscripts reporting mature results (up to 25 pages)
- Experience papers that report on lessons learned from addressing
specific issues within the scope of the call. These papers should be of
interest to the broad data quality community. (12+ pages plus an optional
appendix)
*Important dates and timeline:*
Initial submission: April 1, 2018
First review: July 1, 2018
Revised manuscripts: September 1, 2018
Second review: November 1, 2018
Camera-ready manuscripts: January 10, 2019
Publication: April 1, 2019
For further information and author instructions please visit jdiq.acm.org
<https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-1808ax3137cfx096…>,
or contact Paolo Missier <paolo.missier(a)newcastle.ac.uk> or Naeemul Hassan
<nhassan(a)olemiss.edu>.
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>
Hello list!
I have written a short piece on how online communities are using
algorithmic tools to address issues of gender inequality, harassment, and
more in general how to create more inclusive environments online. And since
I know this is a topic has been discussed before here, I thought some of
you may be interested in reading it:
https://theconversation.com/can-online-gaming-ditch-its-sexist-ways-74493
The main topic is the online gaming platform Twitch, which is sadly in the
news for yet another episode of harassment, but I mention Wikipedia and
some of the initiatives to create more inclusive spaces (e.g. Teahouse).
Any feedback is really appreciated. Cheers!
Giovanni
--
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia <glciampagl(a)gmail.com> ∙ Assistant Research
Scientist
IU Network Science Institute <http://iuni.iu.edu/> ∙ glciampaglia.com
News [image: 🕫]*WWW 2018* ∙ Alternate track on Journalism, Misinformation,
and Fact Checking:
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/misinformation-cfp/