WPOC2017: Workshop on Prioritising Online Content Long Beach Convention Center Long Beach, CA, United States, December 6-9, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.k4all.org/event/prioritising/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpoc2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | October 23, 2017 |
Submission deadline | October 23, 2017 |
NIPS 2017: Saturday December 9th 08:30 – 18:00, Workshop on Prioritising Online Content
Within the past few years, social media have become dominant aggregators and distributors of news. Much public discussion has moved online to social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and comment boards. Traditional newspapers and news channels have lost influence to new online forums with weaker editorial controls.
Perhaps as a result, fake news and lies spread fast and widely. Online political discussion is polarised and tribal. Echo-chambers reinforce one-sided views without presenting any balancing alternatives. False rumours persist even when disproved.
One original promise of the Internet was that it would empower better democratic discussion, with wider participation, and better universal access to true news and argument. If this has not happened, what technologies can we build to achieve it?
Submission Guidelines
- Submission deadline: October 23th
- Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpoc2017
- Acceptance decisions sent: November 7th
- Date of Workshop: December 9th 2017
- Workshop website http://www.k4all.org/event/prioritising/
Any enquiries should be sent to info@k4all.org email address
List of Topics
We invite contributions on any of these or related topics:
- Fake news and fact checking:
- Tracing widely distributed content back to its origins
- Enhancing content in real time with fact checking
- Proactive identification of news trends
- Monitoring, detection, and moderation of polarizing topics
- Presenting and organising content:
- Defining ‘fair discussion’ and algorithmic fairness
- Voting and reputation systems for collective evaluation and prioritisation
- Identifying and mitigating tribalism and echo chambers
- Algorithmic fairness in news retrieval and presentation
- Abuse, hate speech, and illegal content:
- Identifying abuse and breaches of rules for civil discussion
- Detecting and mitigating tribalism
- New tools for moderators
- Collective intelligence:
- How can the quality of on-line discussion be evaluated?
- Improved technologies for online discussion that enable better collective intelligence
- Models of online discussion as large-scale message passing analogous to graphical models
Committees
Program Committee
- Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, University of Milan
- Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute
- Massimiliano Pontil, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and University College London
- Sebastian Riedel, University College London
- Davor Orlic, Knowledge 4 All Foundation
- John Shawe-Taylor, University College London
- Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway
- Emine Yilmaz, University College London
Invited Speakers
- Aristides Gionis, University of Aalto
- Delip Rao, Joostware AI Research and Johns Hopkins University
- Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah
- Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield
Venue
The conference will be held in Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach at NIPS 2017
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@k4all.org