Victoria Rubin

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Do you agree that lying can be justified? If so, when, why or how?

I'm looking for cases of justified deception. If you see anything reported in the news, would you kindly provide a link? If you have a story to tell or an opinion to share, I'd also be very...

06 June 2016 1,713 22 View

Can people successfully navigate across language boundaries in digital environments? And if so, how? Why should one care (or not)?

In your past experiences have you had to do cross-language searching? What are the best search strategies across languages? It could have been for your own research, or for creating a list of...

09 September 2015 7,301 0 View

What is your point of view on online education and the use of technologies for digital degrees?

In "Trapped in the Virtual Classroom" (July 9, 2015 issue of the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/jul/09/trapped-virtual-classroom/) David Bromwich, an...

07 July 2015 2,895 64 View

Do you see Internet of Things (interconnected gadgets given voices) as major convenience or major intrusion of privacy?

The CBC, a major Canadian radio station, just ran an episode about the Internet of Things (audio: http://bit.ly/1FYrbkN) last Saturday (on Terry O'Reilly's Under the Influence) . There were a few...

06 June 2015 2,799 1 View

How do you determine whether a news source is reputable? Or a news story is reliable?

We are thinking through some of the problems in distinguishing reputable news from phony ones. What might give you a clue that an online story you are reading is bogus, fake, or unreliable? We'd...

05 May 2015 7,460 27 View

Have you seen instances of fabricated, fake or misleading news?

I'm looking for sources or actual stories (trending or past ones) in which unverified (fake, fabricated or intentionally misleading) news were passed for bona fide reporting. Any topic will be of...

01 January 2015 824 16 View

How would a user know when or how much to trust a machine translation system?

Formal evaluations of machine translation (MT) systems give a user a general sense of translation accuracies. For users with a passing knowledge of a target language, it is hard to establish...

10 October 2014 806 19 View

Have you ever experienced a language barrier online?

How do you go about getting the information you need, if you have only passing familiarity with the language that the information is in (or no knowledge of it at all)? Have you ever been able to...

10 October 2014 8,406 7 View

How can we support multi-lingualism in multi-cultural environments (schools, for instance)?

This BBC reportage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27281414) says a London (UK) school has 600 children with 42 different languages among them. Is it that unusual? It made me think of a local...

05 May 2014 5,000 6 View

Do you know instances of lying that can impact big data analytics results?

A BBC article reports on the use of big data analytics for predicting successful matches on dating websites (bbc.in/1jqhDWj); for instance, they find the 3 most predictive questions couple agree...

03 March 2014 1,519 28 View

How would you access news (or any other information) in a language you don't know?

Say, you want to know what the Russian and Ukrainian online news are saying about the recent Kiev events and the EU Summit? Or, say, you'd like to see first hand what the Chinese or Malaysian...

03 March 2014 4,687 29 View

Assuming that most data (big or not) tends to have errors, what about data quality and veracity? Is your Big Data messy?

What would you suggest for big data cleansing techniques? Is your big data messy? If so, how (or how much) does it affect your work / research? How do you get rid of noise? How do you verify big...

01 January 2014 7,193 18 View

Is anyone aware of automated deception detection efforts in Asian languages?

I would appreciate pointers to any papers that demonstrate progress in detecting deception (falsification/lying) in Japanese, Mandarin/Cantonese, and or Korean specifically, or any other Asian...

12 December 2013 8,350 11 View

Telling lies in Asian cultures: prevalence, acceptance, or nuances?

Does anyone have good sources on psychological, philosophical, and/or sociolinguistic aspects of deception / lying / face-saving in Asian cultures? What are typical perceptions, taught cultural...

12 December 2013 5,709 5 View

Have you seen significant research efforts in automated "fake news" detection?

While the media hype about "fake news" may have died down in North America a bit, the issue of various kinds of viral deception in digital environments (or CMC) have not gone away. Not in North...

01 January 1970 6,100 14 View