UNBIASED: Fact-provisioning and bias estimation tools for public inoculation against disinformation campaigns
Athens Technology Center SA ·Greece
About this project
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Athens Technology Center (ATC) is an Information Technology Company offering solutions and services in specific business sectors, including media, banking and retail, utilities and the public sector.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">The exposure of citizens to large scale disinformation, including misleading or outright false information, has been acknowledged as a major challenge for Europe. The spread of disinformation is also facilitated by the increasing trend of algorithmic-driven news distribution channels, such as news aggregators and social media.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Their R&D-project UNBIASED aims to combat disinformation online and provide automated tools for fact-checking and identification of reporting bias. The tools developed will be integrated into a news aggregator that will incorporate a large number of different news sources with functionalities that will contribute to combating disinformation and the identification of fake news. Specifically, UNBIASED will offer tools for:</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> - real-time content organization and classification</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> - analyzing and estimating the various forms of reporting bias </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">- discovery of debated topics and polarity of news sources - provision of external evidence for fact checking</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">Athena Research and Innovation Center is one out of two project partners working on UNBIASED. They conducts research in Information, Communication, and Computational Science and Technology, including all areas of data science. In this project, Athena Research and Innovation Center participates with the Institute for Speech and Language Processing - ILSP. ILSP will develop/adapt the modules for real-time data news collection from different news sources, discovery of debated topics, sentiment analysis and polarity estimation, as well as the provision and analysis of external evidence from authoritative sources.</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color: #000000">The project will result in 4 new innovative ICT solutions, 1 IPR and 4 jobs created. Also, increased revenues and competitiveness for the entities in the beneficiary country. </span></span></span></p>
Project partners
- Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies (“Athena” RC) Project partner· Greece