Shared task @ AAAI 2023
Second Workshop on Multimodal Fact-Checking and Hate Speech Detection
February, 2023
ABOUT Factify
Important News Datasets Released:
Factify 2
Colab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/8275Form:https://forms.gle/L43vLWdYX3gGMTnV
Please register here to access the dataset.
We will release a dataset - FACTIFY - on multimodal fact verification. It contains images, textual claim, reference textual document/image. The task is to find out support, no-evidence, and refute between given claims.
Some Samples from Data :
- Dataset link : please register here to access the dataset.
- Evaluation metric : The official evaluation metric for the shared task is weighted-average F1 score.
- Submission instructions : to be updated
- System description paper : All teams/participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their system. Accepted papers will be published in formal proceedings.
- Paper submission instruction : To be updated.
IMPORTANT DATES
- 13 October 2022 : Release of the training set.
- 8 November 2022 : Release of the test set.
- 20 November 2022 : Deadline for submitting the final results.
- 21 November 2022 : Announcement of the results.
- 28 November 2022 : System paper submission deadline (All teams are invited to submit a paper).
- 10 December 2022 : Notification of system papers.
- 20 December 2022 : Camera ready submission.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Dr. Amitava Das:
Dr. Amitava Das is a Core Faculty & Research Associate Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Institute, at University of South Carolina.
Research interests : Code-Mixing
and Social Computing.
Organizing Activities [selective] :
• Memotion @SemEval2020 • SentiMix @SemEval2020 • Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching @LREC 2020 • CONSTRAINT @AAAI2021
Srijan Kumar:
Srijan Kumar is an assistant professor of CSE at Georgia Tech.
Research interests : Multi-X Misinformation and Malicious Actors: Multi-Platform, Multi-Modal, and Multi-Lingual
Dr. Manoj Chinnakotla:
Manoj Chinnakotla is a principal
applied scientist of AI research at Microsoft.
Research interests : NLP, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning.
Dr. Amit Sheth:
Dr. Amit Sheth is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence
Institute, and a CSE Professor at
University of South Carolina.
Research interests : Knowledge
Graph, NLP, Analysing Social
Media
Organizing Activities [selective] :
• Cysoc2021 @ ICWSM2021 • Emoji2021 @ICWSM2021 • KiLKGC 2021 @KGC21
Dr. Asif Ekbal:
Dr. Asif Ekbal is an Associate Professor of CSE at IIT Patna, India.
Research interests : NLP, CodeMixing and Social Computing.
Organizing Activities [selective] : • CONSTRAINT @AAAI2021
Parth Patwa
Masters student at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Research interests : Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Social Computing, and Computer Vision.
ASSOCIATE ORGANIZERS
AISHWARYA REGANTI
AMAZON ALEXA, USA
Megha Chakraborty
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, USA
SHREYASH MISHRA
IIIT SRI CITY, INDIA
S. SURYAVARDAN
IIIT SRI CITY, INDIA
WEB CHAIR
Jinendra Malekar
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, USA