Learning from COVID-19

PANACEA: PANdemic Ai Claim vEracity Assessment

Workshop, Wednesday September 14 2022, 10:00-16:00, Alan Turing Institute

Participation is free. Please register here

Registration deadline: 11 September 2022

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09:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 10:10

Welcome and introduction [slides]

Yulan He, University of Warwick

Maria Liakata, Queen-Mary University of London

10:10 - 10:55

Invited talk: Fact-checking as a conversation [slides]

Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge

10:55 - 11:15

Natural Language Inference with Self-Attention for Veracity Assessment of Pandemic Claims [pdf] [slides] [data]

Miguel Arana Catania, University of Warwick and Cranfield University

11:15 - 11:35

Coffee break

11:35 - 11:55

Evaluating the Generalisability of Neural Rumour Verification Model

Elena Kochkina, Queen-Mary University of London

11:55 - 12:15

Some Observations on Fact Checking Work [slides]

Rob Procter, University of Warwick

12:15 - 12:30

PANACEA demonstration [slides]

Runcong Zhao, University of Warwick

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 13:45

Learning Disentangled Latent Topics for Twitter Rumour Veracity Classification [pdf] [slides]

John Dougrez-Lewis, University of Warwick

13:45 - 14:00

Disentangled Learning of Stance and Aspect Topics for Vaccine Attitude Detection in Social Media [pdf] [slides]

Lixing Zhu, University of Warwick

14:00 - 14:15

Active PETs: Active Data Annotation Prioritisation for Few-Shot Claim Verification with Pattern Exploiting Training [pdf]

Xia Zeng, Queen-Mary University of London

14:15 - 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 - 15:15

Break-out discussion

15:15 - 15:55

Presentation and discussion

15:55 - 16:00

Wrap up