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THURSDAY MARCH 31

Duke University, Perkins Library, Rooms 217 & 218

2:00 p.m. – Welcome & introductions. Bill Adair (Duke) and Alexios Mantzarlis (Poynter).

2:35 p.m. – Demos

→ ClaimBuster: a tool that can analyze transcripts from debates, TV interviews and legislative proceedings and instantly find factual claims to check. Naeemul Hassan (UT Arlington)

→ ICheck: computationally combating “lies, d—ned lies, and statistics” Jun Yang/Brett Walenz (Duke)

→ Experiments with mining the massive Wikipedia knowledge network, a problem at the heart of computer-aided fact-checking tools. Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia (IU)

→ FactMinder: Fact checking and Analyzing the web. Michaël Thomazo (INRIA)

→ Deep Natural Language Processing for Relational Learning from Short Texts. Alessandro Moschitti (QCRI)

4.15 pm. – Break

4.30 p.m. – Lightning rounds

→ How IBM Watson is forging a new way to gain a deep understanding of trending topics in the news. Ben Fletcher (IBM)

→ Using automated monitoring to scale, target, and evaluate fact-checking. Will Moy (Full Fact)

→ RumorLens. Samuel Carton (University of Michigan)

→ Dato Chequeado & Chequeado Colectivo. Pablo Martin Fernandez (Chequeado)

→ Share the Facts Widget. Bill Adair (Duke)

5.15 p.m. – Suggestions box for next day’s agenda. Participants decide key topics for Day 2 by writing down a key challenge and key opportunity for automated fact-checking.

6.30 pm – Dinner @ The Cookery (1101 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham NC 27701)

FRIDAY APRIL 1

Duke University, Perkins Library, Rooms 217 & 218

8:00 a.m. – Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – Anatomy of a fact check: what can and can’t be automated? Mark Stencel (Duke), Angie Holan (PolitiFact), Robert Farley (Factcheck.org)

9.45 a.m. – Break

10:00 a.m. – Imagining the future of fact-checking. Breakout sessions

11:00 a.m. – Key challenges and opportunities. Breakout sessions report back to group.

12:00 p.m. – Lunch

12:45 p.m. – Wrap-up and Next Steps.

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