Irina Temnikova, a researcher at the GATE institute in Sofia, will present her work on 'Project TRACES results – detecting human disinformation and textual deepfakes for a lower resourced language (Bulgarian)'.
Overview
- Date:Starts 17 May 2023, 11:00Ends 17 May 2023, 12:00
- Location:Analysen, EDIT building
- Language:English
Abstract
This talk will present the project TRACES – an interdisciplinary project, indirectly funded by the European Commission via AI4Media, whose aim was to create interdisciplinary methods to detect disinformation written by humans and textual deepfakes in social media for lower-resourced languages. TRACES’ Use Case was Bulgarian. The talk will discuss all initial problems, will explain the interdisciplinary solutions involving methods from Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Journalism, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning, will present the created resources, and any remaining challenges. More information about the project can be found on its website.
About the speaker
Irina Temnikova is an experienced researcher at GATE Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria. She has a mixed background in Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Translation and Psycholinguistics and holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her current research interests are the automatic detection of disinformation and textual deepfakes, evaluating machine translation, text simplification, readability, controlled languages, automatic extraction of crisis-related information, and using eye-tracking and EEG for Psycholinguistic research.
This is a seminar from the DSAI seminars series usually held every Monday at 14:00 by the Data Science and AI division. The seminars are usually hybrid.
