Symposium Schedule
Friday, February 1
8:30-9:15
Registration & Breakfast
9:15-9:30
Welcome Remarks & Introduction
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Alberto Cairo, General Chair
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Gregory J. Shepherd, Dean of the School of Communication
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Nicholas Tsinoremas, Director of the Center for Computational Science
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Jennifer Preston, VP Journalism Program, Knight Foundation
- Nicholas Diakopoulos, Program Chair
9:30-10:30
Keynote: “The Augmented and Automated Newsroom” [Video]
- Lisa Gibbs, director of news partnerships, Associated Press – @lisagibbs954
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Panel: The Human Side to Automation, Algorithms, and AI [Video]
- Moderator: Bahareh Heravi (University College Dublin) – @Bahareh360
- The Human Touch in Automated Fact-Checking (Bill Adair, Mark Stencel, Cathy Clabby and Chengkai Li)
- Presenter: Mark Stencel (Duke University) – @markstencel
- Addressing Micro-Audiences at Scale (Titus Plattner)
- Presenter: Titus Plattner (Tamedia AG) – @titusplattner
- Photomation or Fauxtomation? Automation in the Newsroom and the Impact on Editorial Labour – A Case Study (Stuart Myles)
- Presenter: Stuart Myles (Associated Press) – @smyles
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:30
Keynote: “Projecting Confidence: How the Probabilistic Horse Race Confuses and Demobilizes the Public” [Video]
- Yphtach Lelkes, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania – @ylelkes
2:30-3:00
Coffee break
3:00-4:30
Panel: Information Quality: Measurement, Perception, and Manipulation [Video]
- Moderator: John Wihbey (Northeastern University) – @wihbey
- Can Machine Learning Help Us Measure the Trustworthiness of News? (Samhir Vasdev)
- Presenter: Samhir Vasdev (IREX) – @samhirvasdev
- Credibility Coalition: Bridging Research and Practice towards Open Standards for Online Content (Amy Zhang)
- Presenter: Amy Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – @amyxzh
- The Role of Source, Headline and Expressive Responding in Political News Evaluation (Maurice Jakesch, Moran Koren, Anna Evtushenko and Mor Naaman)
- Presenter: Maurice Jakesch (Cornell University)
- How the Interplay of Google and Wikipedia Affects Perceptions of Online News Sources (Annabel Rothschild, Emma Lurie and Eni Mustafaraj)
- Presenter: Annabel Rothschild (Wellesley College)
- State-Sponsored Disinformation Targeting the US: What We Now Know (Renée DiResta)
- Presenter: Renée DiResta (Mozilla) – @noUpside
4:30-5:30
Panel: Algorithms: Useful Tools or Objects of Investigation? [Video]
- Moderator: Cheryl Phillips (Stanford University) – @cephillips
- Leprosy of the Land: Interactive Map of Illegal Amber Mining Sites in Ukraine (Anatoliy Bondarenko)
- Presenter: Anatoliy Bondarenko (Texty) – @dvrnd
- Using Algorithms to Investigate Algorithms and Society (Uli Köppen)
- Presenter: Uli Köppen (Harvard University) – @zehnzehen
- Getting to the Core of Algorithmic News Aggregators: Applying a Crowdsourced Audit to the Trending Stories Section of Apple News (Jack Bandy and Nicholas Diakopoulos)
- Presenter: Jack Bandy (Northwestern University) – @jackbandy
5:30-6:00
Break
6:00-8:00
Poster & Demo Reception
- MAGIC: Machine Generated Content and AI in Practice (Yuchen Yang, Shuwen)
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Presenter: Yuchen Yang, Shuwen (Alibaba Group)
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- A Chatbot to Train Capacities Against Misinformation (Adrián Pino and Octavio Gabriel Del Real)
- Presenter: Adrián Pino (Datos Concepción)
- Slidetrack: Adding an Interactive, Visual Track to Online Audio (Daniel Lathrop)
- Presenter: Daniel Lathrop (The University of Iowa) – @lathropd
- Visualizing Complex Narratives with Parallel Timelines (Andre Spritzer and Carla Maria Dal Sasso Freitas)
- Presenter: Andre Spritzer (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) – @reztirps
- Leprosy of the Land: Interactive Map of Illegal Amber Mining Sites in Ukraine (Anatoliy Bondarenko)
- Presenter: Anatoliy Bondarenko (Texty) – @dvrnd
- Robust Web Scraping in the Public Interest with AutoScrape (Brandon Roberts)
- Presenter: Brandon Roberts – @bxrobertz
- Belief-Driven Data Journalism (Francis Nguyen, Samana Shrestha, Joe Germuska, Yea-Seul Kim and Jessica Hullman)
- Presenter: Francis Nguyen (Northwestern University)
- Automated Pop-Up Fact-Checking: Challenges & Progress (Bill Adair, Chengkai Li, Jun Yang and Cong Yu)
- Presenter: Jun Yang (Duke University)
- Timeline Storyteller: The Design & Deployment of an Interactive Authoring Tool for Expressive Timeline Narratives (Matthew Brehmer, Bongshin Lee, Nathalie Riche, David Tittsworth, Kate Lytvynets, Darren Edge and Christopher White)
- Presenter: Matthew Brehmer (Microsoft Research) -@mattbrehmer
- A Large-Scale Study of Social Media Sources in News Articles (Md Main Uddin Rony, Mohammad Yousuf and Naeemul Hassan)
- Presenter: Naeemul Hassan (University of Mississippi) – @naeemulhassan
- Why News Automation Fails (Laurence Dierickx)
- Presenter: Laurence Dierickx (Université libre de Bruxelles) – @ohmyshambles
- ModBot: Automatic Comments Moderation (Ling Jiang and Eui-Hong Han)
- Presenter: Ling Jiang (The Washington Post)
- Crisis News Discovery in Open Data Repositories (Thomas Sentis, Steven Lynden and Julien Leblay)
- Presenter: Thomas Sentis (Ecole Polytechnique)
- Modeling Factual Claims by Frames (Fatma Arslan, Damian Jimenez, Josue Caraballo, Gensheng Zhang and Chengkai Li)
- Presenter: Fatma Arslan (University of Texas at Arlington)
- Project Historian: Automatic Timeline Generation (Tiancheng Zhang and Susan McGregor)
- Presenter: Tiancheng Zhang (Columbia University)
- Neural Headline Generation with Self-Training (Kazuma Murao, Shintaro Takemae, Hayato Kobayashi, Taichi Yatsuka, Masaki Noguchi, Hitoshi Nishikawa and Takenobu Tokunaga)
- Presenter: Kazuma Murao (Yahoo! Japan)
- Newsroom Textual Analysis and Visualization Tools Built With R Shiny (Aleszu Bajak, John Wihbey, Gibson Free and Paxtyn Merten)
- Presenter: Paxtyn Merten (Northeastern University) – @wihbey; Aleszu Bajak (Northeastern University) – @aleszubajak
- How We Made Our “Crossing Divides” News Game (Pietro Passarelli, Alli Shultes, Fionntán O’donnell and Luke Hutton)
- Presenter: Pietro Passarelli (BBC News Labs) – @pietropassarell
- Automatically Selecting Images for News Articles with Keyword Extraction (Neil Thurman and Martin Schön)
- Presenter: Martin Schön (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
- Advanced Image Search Algorithm Multi-lingual Concept-to-image Retrieval (Remi Lebret, Didier Orel, Titus Plattner)
- Presenter: Didier Orel (Tamedia)
Saturday, February 2
8:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-10:00
Keynote: “From Designing Boxes to Designing Algorithms: How Programming the News Has Evolved at the New York Times” [Video]
- Brian Hamman, Vice President of Engineering, The New York Times – @hamman
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Panel: Tools for Reporting & Storytelling [Video]
- Moderator: Mindy McAdams (University of Florida) – @macloo
- Belief-Driven Data Journalism (Francis Nguyen, Samana Shrestha, Joe Germuska, Yea-Seul Kim and Jessica Hullman)
- Presenter: Francis Nguyen (Northwestern University)
- Robust Web Scraping in the Public Interest with AutoScrape (Brandon Roberts)
- Presenter: Brandon Roberts – @bxrobertz
- Timeline Storyteller: The Design & Deployment of an Interactive Authoring Tool for Expressive Timeline Narratives (Matthew Brehmer, Bongshin Lee, Nathalie Riche, David Tittsworth, Kate Lytvynets, Darren Edge and Christopher White)
- Presenter: Matthew Brehmer (Microsoft Research) -@mattbrehmer
- A Framework for a Text-Centric User Interface for Navigating Complex News Stories (Philippe Laban, John Canny and Marti Hearst)
- Presenter: Philippe Laban (University of California, Berkeley)
- How We Made Our “Crossing Divides” News Game (Pietro Passarelli, Alli Shultes, Fionntán O’donnell and Luke Hutton)
- Presenter: Pietro Passarelli (BBC News Labs) – @pietropassarell
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-2:00
Community Town Hall
2:00-3:15
Panel: Factchecking & Verification [Video]
- Moderator: Sarah Cohen (Arizona State University) – @sarahcnyt
- Factchecking Facebook and Beyond (Angie Holan) – @AngieHolan
- Presenter: Angie Holan (PolitiFact)
- Automated Pop-Up Fact-Checking: Challenges & Progress (Bill Adair, Chengkai Li, Jun Yang and Cong Yu)
- Presenter: Jun Yang (Duke University)
- Fact-checking Initiatives in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal: A Study of User Engagement and Challenges (Md Mahfuzul Haque, Mohammad Yousuf, Zahedur Arman, Md Main Uddin Rony, Ahmed Shatil Alam, Kazi Mehedi Hasan, Md Khadimul Islam and Naeemul Hassan)
- Presenter: Naeemul Hassan (University of Mississippi) – @naeemulhassan
- DejaVu: A System for Journalists to Collaboratively Address Visual Misinformation (Hana Matatov, Adina Bechhofer, Lora Aroyo, Ofra Amir and Mor Naaman)
- Presenter: Mor Naaman (Cornell University) – @informor
3:15-3:30
Closing Remarks & Conclude
- Irfan Essa (Georgia Institute of Technology)