Please note that there may be changes in the program. Please check this page before you attend the sessions.
INRA 2021 will be held in a hybrid format which includes a virtual session and a physical session. The physical session will be streamed.
25.09.2021 Saturday 15.00-19.00
Virtual session
15.00 – 15.10 Introduction & welcome
15.10 – 15.45 Keynote speech: Frank Hopfgartner, University of Sheffield
"Do you see what I see? Search Engines as a Lens of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
15.45 – 16.00 Break (wonder.me)
16.00 – 17.00 Panel Discussion: News Personalization in the Age of Fake News and Polarization
Moderator: Frank Hopfgartner, University of Sheffield
Panelists (Bio of the panelists):
Damian Trilling, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Edward Malthouse, Northwestern University, USA
Jonathan Stray, Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI
Judith Möller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Konstantin Pogorelov, Simula Reserach Lab, Norway
17.00 – 17.15 Break (wonder.me)
17.15 – 18.00 Discussion session with breakout rooms
17.15 – 17.30 Introduction of the discussion topics:
- Towards an Experimental News User Community as Infrastructure for Recommendation Research,
Joseph Konstan, Robin Burke, and Edward Malthouse.
- Algorithmic Personalisation in the News Domain
- Combating Misinformation
- Multi-modal News Content
17.30 – 18.00 Break-out rooms
28.09.2021 Tuesday 09.30 – 13.00
Physical session
09.30 – 09.40 Introduction & welcome
09.40 – 10.15 Daan Odijk "Diverse News Recommendation at RTL"
10.15 – 10.30 Paper presentation: How to Effectively Identify and Communicate Person-Targeting Media Bias in Daily News Consumption? Felix Hamborg, Timo Spinde, Kim Heinser, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp.
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 11.05 Paper presentation: Predicting Feature-based Similarity in the News Domain Using Human Judgments. Alain Starke, Sebastian Øverhaug Larsen and Christoph Trattner.
11.05 – 11.25 Paper presentation: Semi-Automated Identification of News Story Chains: A New Dataset and Entity-based Labeling Method. Fatih Gedikli, Anne Stockem Novo and Dietmar Jannach.
11.25 – 11.40 Break
11.40 – 11.55 Paper presentation: Interactive Visualization of the Polarity-based Stance of News Websites using News Genres. Masaharu Yoshioka, Norihiko Tatsunami, Masahiko Itoh, Noriko Kando and James Allan.
11.55 – 12.15 Paper presentation: Information overload and user satisfaction: Balance between reliance on recommendations and deliberate news selection. Zhixin Pu and Michael Beam.
12.15 – 13.00 Interactive session & mingling
Introduction of the upcoming events (seminars, conferences, challenges, projects etc.) from the participants.
