📢 Call for Bids for EAMT 2026 – Deadline Extended! Want to host #EAMT2026 in your region? Good news! The deadline to submit your draft proposal has been extended to October 14th. Don’t miss your chance to bring EAMT to your city! Find all details here: eamt.org/2024/08/09/eam…

📝Did you know VIGILANT builds on the 2019 Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy #AI? Our Ethics Framework, developed with Universität Freiburg, ensures we meet the highest standards while maximizing positive impact. Check out our summary: bit.ly/40o4UwP

Our third in-person General Assembly has just begun! Looking forward to engaging two days full of brainstorm on how to make the most of the third year of the #VIGILANTproject! Can you guess the city? 🏛️🏺

As Vigilant Project, aimed at tackling #disinformation, is going into its third year, the consortium is in Athens to discuss progress & next steps. Proud to contribute by providing the #datastorage layer based on GraphDB by Ontotext & the Ontotext Platform. 🔗 hubs.la/Q02TBG1F0

Ahmad Zareie will be presenting our Vigilant Project work on Detecting Coordinated Disinformation Campaigns in OSNs at #AoIR2024 in Sheffield on Tuesday 29/10 sites.google.com/uniurb.it/csbd…

On 29 October from 11-12 CET Luca Cuccovillo and Milica Garhardt of Fraunhofer IDMT will present their research on audio tools to counter disinformation at an EBU webinar. Secure your place by registering 👇 tech.ebu.ch/events/2024/ve…

Timothy Graham from QUT kicks off our #AoIR2024 satellite event in Sheffield with a great keynote speech! Very interesting talk about inauthenticity in social networks and how it impacts society vera.ai Vigilant Project (Thanks to Giada and Ahmad for charing the session)

Ahmad presenting our Vigilant Project work on anomaly-based approaches for #coordination detection in social media at our #AoIR2024 satellite event We are looking forward to the discussions! vera.ai Sheffield NLP Sheffield Comp Sci GATE (gate.ac.uk)

Webinar alert! On 26 Nov from 11-12 am CET EBU will host another webinar. This time, Olesya Razuvayevskaya & Carolina Scarton of Sheffield NLP will present their work on developing AI-based text analysis tools to verify information. Registration required: tech.ebu.ch/events/2024/ai…

Looking forward to these two presentations by Olesya Razuvayevskaya & Olga Papadopoulou at the Sofia Information Integrity Forum next week, Nov 7-9, focusing on vera.ai tools for #textanalysis & for detecting deepfake, synthetic media & manipulated content. ╰┈➤ hubs.la/Q02WBGtZ0

💡Thrilled to share our paper "Investigating Idiomaticity in Word Representations", coming soon in Computational Linguistics! Dive into idiomaticity in LMs, with insights from my amazing colleagues Wei He Tiago K. Vieira Carolina Scarton, Marco Idiart & Aline Villavicencio #NLProc

As part of the #VIGILANTproject & Vera.AI, colleagues from the Sheffield NLP co-organised a workshop on "Coordinated Sharing Behavior Detection" at #AoIR2024 to explore advancements in multimodal & cross-platform detection. Read more ➡ lnkd.in/eVfiqV3f

💬Do citizens feel confident identifying #disinformation? How free should the #internet be? At a recent event in Ireland, we engaged with citizens on countering disinformation, free speech, and the role of Police Authorities in securing both. More insight➡️vigilantproject.eu/blog-posts/hav…

There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded TNA research visit with our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities.

Interested in working with multimodal #NLProc and disinformation analysis? Jefersson A. dos Santos and I have one PhD opportunity to work on both topics Sheffield Comp Sci Sheffield NLP GATE (gate.ac.uk) More info findaphd.com/phds/project/m… Deadline: 29/01/2025 DM and e-mail us if you are interested

🚨ExU workshop on AI-based multilingual tools to support fact-checking ⏲️13/03/2025 at 1pm 🏫CR 4, Diamond Building, University of Sheffield 💰Free 💻exuproject.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/workshop Keynote: Andrew Dudfield (Full Fact AI) Organisers: GATE (gate.ac.uk) Sheffield NLP and KInIT All welcome!

Super congratulations, Tomas Goldsack !! All the best for the next chapter of your career!!

Very proud that Tomas Goldsack passed his PhD viva with minor corrections today! 🎉 His PhD focuses on generating lay summaries of complex content for non-expert audiences. Many thanks to Carolina Scarton (co-supervisor) and to the panel members Diana Maynard and Stuart E Middleton!

Great day out in the Peaks for the Sheffield NLP Research Away Day just outside Sheffield! 🚍☕🌲 Inspiring talks, thoughtful discussions, and plenty of time to connect. Thanks to all who joined and made it special!🌺