Beyond facts: Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs

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Authors

  • Konstantin Todorov
  • Pavlos Fafalios
  • Stefan Dietze

External Research Organisations

  • Université Montpellier
  • Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
  • University Hospital Düsseldorf
  • GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKnowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021)
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis, KnOD 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 14 Apr 202114 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR WS
Volume2877
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Abstract

Expressing opinions and interacting with others on the Web has led to the production of an abundance of online discourse data, such as claims and viewpoints on controversial topics, their sources and contexts. This data constitutes a valuable source of insights for studies into misinformation spread, bias reinforcement, echo chambers or political agenda setting. While knowledge graphs promise to provide the key to a Web of structured information, they are mainly focused on facts without keeping track of the diversity, connection or temporal evolution of online discourse data. As opposed to facts, claims are inherently more complex. Their interpretation strongly depends on the context and a variety of intentional or unintended meanings, where terminology and conceptual understandings strongly diverge across communities from computational social science, to argumentation mining, fact-checking, or viewpoint/ stance detection. The 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis (KnOD 2021) aims at strengthening the relations between these communities, providing a forum for shared works on the modeling, extraction and analysis of discourse on the Web. It addresses the need for a shared understanding and structured knowledge about discourse data in order to enable machine-interpretation, discoverability and reuse, in support of scientific or journalistic studies into the analysis of societal debates on the Web.

Keywords

    Computational Fact-checking, Knowledge Graphs, Mis-/Dis-information Spread, Online Discourse Analysis, Social Web Mining, Stance/Viewpoint Detection

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Beyond facts: Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs. / Todorov, Konstantin; Fafalios, Pavlos; Dietze, Stefan.
Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2877).

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Todorov, K, Fafalios, P & Dietze, S 2021, Beyond facts: Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs. in Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 2877, 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Analysis, KnOD 2021, Virtual, Online, 14 Apr 2021. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2877/preface.pdf>
Todorov, K., Fafalios, P., & Dietze, S. (2021). Beyond facts: Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs. In Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021) (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2877). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2877/preface.pdf
Todorov K, Fafalios P, Dietze S. Beyond facts: Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs. In Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
Todorov, Konstantin ; Fafalios, Pavlos ; Dietze, Stefan. / Beyond facts : Online Discourse and Knowledge Graphs. Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis 2021: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Online Discourse Αnalysis (KnOD 2021) co-located with the 30th The Web Conference (WWW 2021). 2021. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
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