August 5, 2019

KDD 2019 Workshop on Truth Discovery and Fact Checking: Theory and Practice

Time (pm) Event
1.00 Opening
1.05 Keynote 1 – Emre Kiciman (Sr. Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research) (opens in new tab)Detecting the Missing Information in Misinformation
1.40 Contributed Talk – Kai Shu (Arizona State University), dEFEND: Explainable Fake News Detection (opens in new tab)
2.00 Spotlight 1 – Subhabrata Mukherjee (Sr. Research Scientist, Microsoft Research) (opens in new tab)Fact Checking Natural Language Claims
2.20 D-FJ: Deep Neural Network Based Factuality Judgment (opens in new tab), Ankan Mullick, Sourav Pal, Projjal Chanda, Arijit Panigrahy, Anurag Bharadwaj and Siddhant Singh
2.30 Coffee Break
3.00 Keynote 2 – Xin Luna Dong (Principal Scientist, Amazon USA) (opens in new tab)Demeter: Harvesting knowledge from the semi-structured web
3.40 Spotlight 2 – Qi Li (UIUC) (opens in new tab)Truth Discovery for Information Extraction
4.00 Workshop Paper – Workshop Paper – CrossLang: the system of cross-lingual plagiarism detection (opens in new tab), Oleg Bakhteev, Alexandr Ogaltsov, Andrey Khazov, Kamil Safin and Rita Kuznetsova
4.20 Workshop Paper – Localizing the Rumor Source in a Network (opens in new tab), Guanyu Nie and Christopher Quinn
4.30 Workshop Paper – AuthIntegrate: Toward Combating False Data on the Internet (opens in new tab), Romila Pradhan and Sunil Prabhakar
4.40 Workshop Paper – A Data Set of Internet Claims and Comparison of their Sentiments with Credibility (opens in new tab), Amey Parundekar, Susan Elias and Ashwin Ashok
4.50 Closing – Prof. Jiawei Han (UIUC) (opens in new tab)