August 15, 2021

KDD 2021 TrueFact Workshop: Making a Credible Web for Tomorrow

Location: Virtual

Please join the event in the following [link (opens in new tab)].

Speaker Title
Time (Pacific Standard Time / AM)
Keynotes
Prof. Xiangliang Zhang (Notre Dame) (opens in new tab) Characterizing the Attackability of Machine Learning Models against Evasion Attacks 8:00 – 8:40
Prof. Stephan Guennemann (TU Munich) (opens in new tab) Adversarial Robustness of Graph Neural Networks 8:40 – 9:20
Prof. Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) (opens in new tab) Explainable Fact Checking with a Human-in-the-loop 9:20 – 10:00
Contributed Talks
Prof. Xi Zhang (BUPT) (opens in new tab) Rumor detection on social media with multimodal information fusion 10:00 – 10:15
Yichuan Li (WPI) (opens in new tab) Fact-Enhanced Synthetic News Generation (AAAI 2021) 10:15 – 10:35
Alex Braylan (UTA) (opens in new tab) Modeling and Aggregation of Complex Annotations via Annotation Distances 10:35 – 10:55
           Break 10:55 – 11:00
Discussion Panel: Challenges in Fair Machine Learning

Panelists: Prof. Matthew Lease (opens in new tab)(University of Texas at Austin) (opens in new tab), Prof. Jing Gao (Purdue University) (opens in new tab)

Host: Prof. Qi Li (Iowa State University) (opens in new tab)

11:00 – 11:30
Workshop Papers
Xuan Wang, Vivian Hu, Xiangchen Song, Qi Li and Jiawei Han

(UIUC, IOWA)

EvidenceMiner: Textual Evidence Mining in Scientific Literature (opens in new tab) 11:30 – 11:45
Tarik Arici, Kushal Kumar, Hayreddin Ceker, Anoop Saladi and Ismail Tutar

(Amazon)

Solving Price Per Unit Problem Around the World: Formulating Fact Extraction as Question Answering (opens in new tab) 11:45 – 12:00