Program

September 7th - Room: Amager Strandpark

PROGRAM

8:45 - 8:50 Openings

Oral Presentations

8:50 - 9:10

Predicting News Values from Headline Text and Emotions

Maria Pia di Buono, Jan Šnajder, Bojana Dalbelo Basic, Goran Glavaš, Martin Tutek and Natasa Milic-Frayling

9:10 - 9:30

Predicting User Views in Online News (best paper award)

Daniel Hardt and Owen Rambow

9:30 - 9:50

Tracking Bias in News Sources Using Social Media: the Russia-Ukraine Maidan Crisis of 2013–2014

Peter Potash, Alexey Romanov, Mikhail Gronas, Anna Rumshisky and Mikhail Gronas

9:50 - 10:10

What to Write? A topic recommender for journalists

Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Christian Morbidoni, Giovanni Stilo and Paola Velardi

10:10 - 10:30

Comparing Attitudes to Climate Change in the Media using sentiment analysis based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Ye Jiang, Xingyi Song, Jackie Harrison, Shaun Quegan and Diana Maynard

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20

Language-based Construction of Explorable News Graphs for Journalists

Rémi Bois, Guillaume Gravier, Eric Jamet, Emmanuel Morin, Pascale Sébillot and Maxime Robert

11:20 - 11:40

Storyteller: Visual Analytics of Perspectives on Rich Text Interpretations

Maarten van Meersbergen, Piek Vossen, Janneke van der Zwaan, Antske Fokkens, Willem van Hage, Inger Leemans and Isa Maks

11:40 - 12:00

Analyzing the Revision Logs of a Japanese Newspaper for Article Quality Assessment

Hideaki Tamori, Yuta Hitomi, Naoaki Okazaki and Kentaro Inui

12:00 - 12:20

Improved Abusive Comment Moderation with User Embeddings

John Pavlopoulos, Prodromos Malakasiotis, Juli Bakagianni and Ion Androutsopoulos

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch (in Øksnehallen)

14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk

Conversational markers of social dynamics

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil - Cornell University

15:00 - 16:30 Poster Presentations

Incongruent Headlines: Yet Another Way to Mislead Your Readers

Sophie Chesney, Maria Liakata, Massimo Poesio and Matthew Purver

Unsupervised Event Clustering and Aggregation from Newswire and Web Articles

Swen Ribeiro, Olivier Ferret and Xavier Tannier

Semantic Storytelling, Cross-lingual Event Detection and other Semantic Services for a Newsroom Content Curation Dashboard

Julian Moreno-Schneider, Ankit Srivastava, Peter Bourgonje, David Wabnitz and Georg Rehm

Deception Detection in News Reports in the Russian Language: Lexics and Discourse

Dina Pisarevskaya

Fake news stance detection using stacked ensemble of classifiers

James Thorne, Mingjie Chen, Giorgos Myrianthous, Jiashu Pu, Xiaoxuan Wang and Andreas Vlachos

From Clickbait to Fake News Detection: An Approach based on Detecting the Stance of Headlines to Articles

Peter Bourgonje, Julian Moreno Schneider and Georg Rehm

’Fighting’ or ’Conflict’? An Approach to Revealing Concepts of Terms in Political Discourse

Linyuan Tang and Kyo Kageura

A News Chain Evaluation Methodology along with a Lattice-based Approach for News Chain Construction

Mustafa Toprak, Özer Özkahraman and Selma Tekir

Using New York Times Picks to Identify Constructive Comments

Varada Kolhatkar and Maite Taboada

An NLP Analysis of Exaggerated Claims in Science News

YINGYA LI, Jieke Zhang and Bei Yu

16:30 - 16:40

Best paper announcement

16:40 - 17:30 Panel

moderator: Amanda Stent (Bloomberg)

topics: intelligent tools in mass-media - bias and variation in news making - opinion changing and event drifting - AI, media and democracy in 21h century

17:30 Closing