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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Computational Methods for Identifying Deviant Conte
 nt in Online Media Ecosystems
DTSTART:20210331T150000
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DESCRIPTION:By: May ElSherif - Georgia Institute of Technology\nIC Faculty
  candidate\n\nAbstract\nIn recent years\, the pervasive adoption of social
  media has created an ecosystem populated by a pandemonium of opinion\, tr
 ue and false information\, and an unprecedented quantity of data on many t
 opics. While online information ecosystems provide freedom of expression a
 nd give voice to individuals\, they have also suffered a wave of disorder 
 due to the prevalence of malevolent online misuse\, manifested as online h
 arassment\, cyberbullying\, and hate speech\; and online misinformation\, 
 such as fake news and medical misinformation movements. In this talk\, I w
 ill present language-centric approaches for improving online hate speech d
 etection and characterization. I will then showcase a human-machine mixed-
 initiative that aims at investigating and detecting online misinformation 
 surrounding Opioid Use Disorders in collaboration with the Centers for Dis
 ease Control and Prevention. \n\nBio\nMay ElSherif is a Postdoctoral Fell
 ow at the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Her research in
 terests lie at the intersection of Social Computing\, Natural Language Pro
 cessing\, and Online Social Networks\, specifically causes of social good.
  In her research\, she adopts Natural Language Processing and Machine Lear
 ning methods to examine human behavior pertaining to online abuse\, biases
 \, public health intelligence\, and community wellbeing. Prior to her Post
 doctoral Fellowship\, she received Ph.D. from the Computer Science departm
 ent at UC Santa Barbara within the Mobility Management and Networking (MOM
 ENT) Lab along with a Certificate in College and University Teaching (CCUT
 ) to demonstrate superior competence and experience in preparation for tea
 ching at the university or college level.\n \nHer research on computation
 ally understanding the psychological impacts of active shooting drills on 
 K-12 school communities received press coverage by NBC\, the Hill\, and 11
 Alive. She has been a summer research intern at the Berkman Klein Center 
 for Internet and Society at Harvard University understanding anti-immigra
 tion sentiment and the discursive practices of online hate groups. She has
  been selected as a 2020 UC Berkeley EECS Rising Stars Participant. She wa
 s also awarded the UCSB 2019 CS Outstanding Graduate Student and the 2017
  Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate mentoring award for her distinguis
 hed research mentoring of undergraduate students. \n\nMore information
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84116929655?pwd=aHhpOVZ6NjBwY2cycVBIUnlma0
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