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iCODA members helping to shape the future of a European sovereign media industry

iCODA members invited by Special adviser to European Commission President Guillaume Klossa in preparation of his report towards European media sovereignty. A discussion on the impact of AI technology on the transformation of the media industry. Check the final report … specially page 22 where iCODA is mentioned.

DocEng 2019: Using Knowledge Base Semantics in Context-Aware Entity Linking

Improving core technology to bridge content and knowledge bases through entity linking with the help of the information that knowledge bases embed. A collaboration between the LINKMEDIA and CEDAR team accepted for publication at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019, in Munich in September 2019. Abstract. Entity linking is…

ESWC 2019: Reformulation-based query answering for RDF graphs with RDFS ontologies

Core iCODA technology on efficiently querying heterogeneous data sources through RDFS ontologies to be presented next week (June 2-6) at the European Semantic Web Conference in Portoroz. A joint work of the CEDAR and GraphIK teams illustrating the cooperation between databases and knowledge engineering. Check the preprint on HAL. Abstract.…

iCODA tools analyzing responses on climate from the French national consultation

Visualization tools from iCODA used at Ouest-France to analyze citizen’s responses on climate change and ecological transition. French citizens have been contributing since January 2019 to Le Grand Débat National, a national consultation on a variety of societal topics. Data journalists from Ouest-France have analyzed the suggestions made by citizens…

iCODA member at CNRS press conference on fake news

Vincent Claveau, member of the Linkmedia research team and strongly involved in the iCODA project, is one of the top-qualified researchers at CNRS press conference on fake news. The press conference gathers a number of scientists from different disciplines: philosophy, sociology, economy, law and, of course, computer science! A lot…

iCODA members interviewed on fake news detection

Researchers from the iCODA project interviewed in a report on fake news detection published in Le Monde’s website. In this report, Inria’s teams CEDAR and Linkmedia, together with journalists from Le Monde and AFP, explains how data and image processing benefits the chase of fake news. The report presents results from companion projects of ICODA, namely the ANR ContentCheck and H2020 InVid projects, which served as a seminal inspiration for iCODA.

iCODA members involved in the Sprint DataPol event!

Members of the iCODA consortium got involved in the Sprint DataPol organized at Science Po Paris on December 2017.This event gathered journalists, computer scientists, designers and experts in political science over 3 days around the study of large pools of data produced during the last presidential elections in France: political programs, web sites of the main candidates, countless tweets from and about the candidates were made available and analyzed by a number of teams, each investigating a different angle. AFP, Les Décodeurs du Monde and Inria’s Linkmedia research team jointly took part in a use-case studying the propagation of fake news in social networks to gain insight on the mechanisms required to track and debunk fake news. A quick overview of the main findings was published by Adrien Sénécat on the Decodex blog.