ICDM2017 Tutorial on Misinformation part1

Описание: [Speaker: Liang Wu, Arizona State University. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University. Huan Liu, Arizona State University.] A rapid increase in social networking services in recent years has enabled people to share and seek information effectively. Meanwhile, the openness and timeliness of social networking sites also allow for the rapid creating and dissemination of misinformation. As witnessed in recent incidents of fake news, misinformation escalates quickly and can impact social media users with undesirable consequences and wreak havoc instantaneously. Despite many people have been aware of that fake news and rumors are misleading the public and even compromising elections, the problem is not going away. In this tutorial, we will discuss how misinformation gains traction in the race for attention, introduce emerging challenges of identifying misinformation, present a comparative survey of current data mining research in tackling the challenges, and suggest available resources and point to directions for future work.
ICDM Tutorial, Mining Misinformation in Social Media:
Understanding Its Rampant Spread, Harm, and Intervention

Speaker:
Liang Wu
http://www.liangwu.me/

Liang Wu, PhD. is a machine learning data scientist at Airbnb. His research focuses on E-Commerce search, web search, and recommender systems. His dissertation work concentrated on building robust machine learning systems with noisy, inaccurate and biased data. He has published over 30 papers in major artificial intelligence conferences including AAAI, CIKM, ICDM, ICWSM, SDM, SIGIR and WSDM, and his solution has won the third place on the leaderboard in KDD Cup 2012. He serves as a Program Committee member for AAAI, SIGIR, KDD, WSDM, BIGDATA, etc, and a main lecturer for tutorials in SBP'16 and ICDM'17. He obtained his Ph.D. from Arizona State University, and his master and bachelor from Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecom, respectively. He is an author of 2 book chapters and 4 patents in China.