Fwd: PAN task on profiling fake news spreaders on Twitter: training set released

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Mar 4, 2020, 5:54:05 AM3/4/20

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Дорогие коллеги, пересылаю информацию о соревновании по автоматическому профилированию авторов социальных медиа.

С уважением, О.Митрофанова

Call for participation:

PAN 2020 shared task on Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter

Shared Task Website:
https://pan.webis.de/clef20/pan20-web/author-profiling.html

Fake news has become one of the main threats of our society. Although
fake news is not a new phenomenon, the exponential growth of social
media has offered an easy platform for their fast propagation. A great
amount of fake news, and rumors are propagated in online social
networks with the aim, usually, to deceive users and formulate
specific opinions. Users play a critical role in the creation and
propagation of fake news online by consuming and sharing articles with
inaccurate information either intentionally or unintentionally. To
this end, in this task, we aim at identifying possible fake news
spreaders on social media as a first step towards preventing fake news
from being propagated among online users.

After having addressed several aspects of author profiling in social
media from 2013 to 2019 (bot detection, age and gender, also together
with personality, gender and language variety, and gender from a
multimodality perspective), this year we aim at investigating if it is
possible to discriminate authors that have shared some fake news in
the past from those that, to the best of our knowledge, have never
done it. As in previous years, we propose the task from a multilingual
perspective, both in English and in Spanish.

Important dates

Training data set already released:
https://zenodo.org/record/3692319#.Xlzr1yFKiUk

March 31, 2020: Early bird software submission (optional)
April 28, 2020: Software submission deadline
May 24, 2020: Participant paper submission
June 14, 2020: Peer review notification
June 28, 2020: Camera-ready participant papers submission
TBD: Early bird conference registration
September 22-25, 2020: Conference

Task Organizers

Francisco Rangel
Symanto

Paolo Rosso, Bilal Ghanem, Anastasia Giachanou
Universitat Politècnica de València