UrduFake 2020: Fake News Detection in Urdu 16th-20th December, virtual conference
A task at FIRE 2020 Hyderabad, India and a CICLing 2020 activity https://www.cicling.org/UrduFake/2020/ Registration is open for the 1st Fake News Detection in Urdu workshop, a task at FIRE 2020 and a CICLing 2020 activity. This open task will bring together researchers interested in fake news detection and invite them to develop algorithms to detect fake news in the Urdu language. See details on www.cicling.org/UrduFake/2020. AIMS AND SCOPE: The workshop aims to provide new solutions to combat fake news in Urdu, as well as to create an inclusive environment to foster collaboration. TARGET AUDIENCE: This is an open task inviting participants from all academic levels, including undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD students, as well as experts working in the industry. TASK: The organizers provide a set of news texts manually classified into fake and true, and the participants are asked to develop the corresponding classifiers. A team submits up to 3 different runs; the best run becomes the final run. PUBLICATION: Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings <http://ceur-ws.org/> (http://ceur-ws.org) as part of the FIRE 2020 proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: - 30 June: Open Track websites and training data released - 15 August: Test data released - 30 August: Run submission deadline - 15 September: Results announced - 12 October: Working Notes submission - 26 October: Review notification - 2 November: Camera-ready deadline - 16-20 December: the workshop (online) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Maaz Amjad, CIC-IPN, Mexico Grigori Sidorov, CIC-IPN, Mexico Alisa Zhila, independent researcher, USA Alexander Gelbukh, CIC-IPN, Mexico Paolo Rosso, UPV, Spain For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: <https://groups.google.com/u/1/>urdufake2...@googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/urdufake2020>
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