Here you can find announcements about where you can meet us or see us in action – be it physically (i.e. at conferences, workshops etc.) or virtually (on whichever platform it may be).
Co-hosted with the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR’24) that takes place in Phuket, Thailand, from 10-13 June 2024, vera:ai project partners are co-organising the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’24) in Phuket, Thailand. Here's more, including the respective Call for Papers.
A project by vera.ai, entitled “The Persistence and Resilience of Misinformation in the Face of Fact Checking,” was facilitated by Fabio Giglietto, Massimo Terenzi ( UNIURB) and Richard Rogers (UvA) at the Digital Media Initiative Winter School at the University of Amsterdam. We are pleased to share with you the results.
The EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) conference is one of the top NLP conferences. KInIT researchers Róbert Móro and Ján Čegiň presented three full papers at this prestigious event. Here’s more about what they did, and the related works.
Would you like to meet some of the VERA.AI team members? If so: don’t miss the chance and look for us in Nuremberg from 4-7 December 2023 at the IEEE Workshop in Information Forensics and Security.
Our innovation manager Denis Teyssou (AFP) conducted a 50 minutes dedicated breakout session named AI vs disinformation: the vera.ai project: enhancing the InVID-WeVerify plugin. Around 40 participants, including well-known fact-checkers like Craig Silverman (ProPublica), attended the session in-person. The talk was recorded for online participants on the Global Fact 10 website.
Here's a video recording of a talk by Fabio Giglietto of the University of Urbino, given in June 2023 at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Topic: using OpenAI models to identify the most salient topics circulated via Facebook links in the run-up to the Italian general elections.
On 29 June 2023, the conference "Meet the Future of AI: Countering Sophisticated & Advanced Disinformation" took place at VRT in Brussels. It was organised by Horizon Europe research projects AI4Media, AI4Trust, TITAN, vera.ai and the European Commission. The event was attended by 90 people on-site, while around 180 joined online. Here's a recap.
On Friday 30 June, vera.ai will be featured in Seoul (Korea), in a dedicated breakout session of the leading worldwide gathering of fact-checkers: Global Fact 10, which takes place under the auspices of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
The event “Meet the future of AI” is coming closer, scheduled to take place on 29 June 2023. You can still register - but we are filling up fast (for in-person participation - no limits in term of numbers for participation online). Here, we publish the detailed agenda, so you know what you can expect.
The EU co-funded projects AI4Media and vera.ai co-organized a joint workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’23), which took place in Thessaloniki on 12 June 2023. Here's a recap and outlook.
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