ExU Workshop on Multilingual AI-based Tools for Supporting Fact-Checking
13th March 2025
About the Workshop
This in-person workshop will showcase the research outputs achieved by the ExU project partners, the University of Sheffield (UoS) and Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT). UoS will discuss their progress on multilingual stance detection and KInIT will demonstrate their multilingual claim retrieval tool.
Participants in the workshop will be asked to provide feedback about the tools, contributing to the improvement of our research in AI tools for supporting journalists and fact-checkers.
As part of this evaluation workshop, we are delighted to announce Andy Dudfield (Full Fact) as our keynote speaker. Full Fact is the main independent fact-checking agency in the UK. Andy will talk about the importance of AI tools (like the ones developed in ExU) in the work of fact-checking worldwide.
Registration
The workshop is targeted at journalists, fact-checkers, and AI researchers (including students) who might employ our tools in their work, but we invite any and all interested parties to attend!
Event Details
Date: Thursday March 13th, 2025
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Location: Computer Room 4, Diamond Building, University of Sheffield
32 Leavygreave Rd, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7RD (map)
Schedule
Time
Topic
Speaker(s)
13:00 - 13:15
Welcome and Overview of the
ExU Project
Carolina Scarton
(UoS)
13:15 - 14:15
How AI helps fact checkers around the world
Andy Dudfield
(Full Fact)
14:15 - 15:10
Multilingual Stance Classification
Jake Vasilakes & Yue Li
(UoS)
15:10 - 16:00
Multilingual Claim Retrieval
Martin Hyben & Ivan Vykopal (KInIT)
16:00 - 16:15
Closing Remarks
Carolina Scarton
16:15 - 17:00
Light refreshments
Invited Speaker
Andy Dudfield Head of Full Fact AI
Full Fact has spent 10 years building technology to support fact checkers. Our tools are now used by over 40 fact checking organisations working in three languages across 30 countries on a daily basis, to help experts use their knowledge of national and regional affairs and issues of importance more effectively. Through 2024, the tools were used to support fact checkers monitoring 12 national elections. On a typical weekday, our tools process about a third of a million sentences in total. Andy will run through the challenges and learnings from building and scaling highly used software in an ever changing misinformation landscape.
Andy has led Full Fact’s artificial intelligence team since 2019, developing technology to tackle misinformation at internet scale by serving the needs of fact checkers around the world. Andy was previously the Chief Publishing Officer of the Office for National Statistics and prior to that spent a decade working in product and technology roles at the BBC.