The document outlines the objectives and projects of Autoritas Consulting, which specializes in artificial intelligence applications to enhance trust and combat misinformation. It discusses significant transformations expected in humanity through various advancements and highlights specific research projects such as irony detection in Spanish communications and proactive profiling of fake news spreaders. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of big data and artificial intelligence in addressing challenges related to misinformation and public perception.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
FOR BUILDING TRUST
MASTER’S DEGREE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, PATTERN RECOGNITION AND DIGITAL IMAGING
UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA
April 4, 2018
Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo (@kicorangel)

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Autoritas Consulting S.A. was founded in 2008
+50 associated consultants
+200 customers:
Repsol, FC Barcelona, Diputació Lleida, Junta Andalucía,
Argentina National Security (ANSES), Mexico Government,
etc.
8 countries:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Mexico
Panama
Spain
Uruguay

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8 changes that will transform humanity forever
1. Rewrite genetics
2. Discover new materials
3. Govern a disenchanted world
4. Teach machines to learn
5. Find a universal energy
6. Win to infections
7. Crop with little water
8. Life on Mars

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8 changes that will transform humanity forever
1. Rewrite genetics
2. Discover new materials
3. Govern a disenchanted world
4. Teach machines to learn
5. Find a universal energy
6. Win to infections
7. Crop with little water
8. Life on Mars
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To build trust
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TRUST
STRATEGY
INTELLIGENCE
ACTION
DASHBOARD
METHODS/TOOLS
TRAINING
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TRUST
STRATEGY
INTELLIGENCE
ACTION
DASHBOARD
METHODS/TOOLS
TRAINING
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Intelligence
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OSINT - Open Source Intelligence
DATA -> INFORMATION -> KNOWLEDGE -> INTELLIGENCE
Tools and
methodologies
Human
interpretation
Strategic
application
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We need to answer questions...
… to know what questions to ask
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Easy!
Big data +
artificial
intelligence
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Ambiguity!!
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In real time!!
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Approx. only 2% of
contents are geotagged!!
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Language variety identification to improve geotagging
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I really want Cataluña to be
#independent!!
Is the following sentence positive, negative, neutral or none?
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I really want Cataluña to be
#independent!!
Is the following sentence positive, negative, neutral or none?
It depends on the subjectivity of the receiver, e.g.
- Positive for Puigdemont
- Negative for Rajoy
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I really want Cataluña to be
#independent!!
Is the following sentence positive, negative, neutral or none?
It depends on the subjectivity of the receiver, e.g.
- Positive for Puigdemont
- Negative for Rajoy
But what about the stance of the author with respect to the main topic?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrqMEn-5Pi8
- Retrieve and store
- Evolution
- Words and topics
- Labelling
- Hashtags
- People
- Locations
- Brands
- Polarity, stance
- Users, relationships
- Gender, age
- Author profile
- ...
BIG DATA IS A BIG PROBLEM… AND A BIG OPPORTUNITY
tweets/second tweets/minute tweets/hour tweets/day
VOLUME - VELOCITY - VARIETY - VALUE
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Cosmos
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SOCIAL
MEDIA

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Some examples of things we do for our customers...
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What’s the main interest of people in Fallas?
http://www.levante-emv.com/fallas/2018/03/15/seguridad-tema-repercusion-fallas-internet/1691764.html
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What’s the profile of your organisation community?
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Is there something that squeaks?
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Political parties
What’s the affinity among political parties and media?
Media
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Some of our R&D projects...
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2009-2010:
AL4Tour
Active Listening
for Tourism
744.681,83 €
2011-2012: CIHC
Medical Records
Coder
432.129,25 €
2012-2014:
INNPACTO
Regional
Opportunities
576.629,00 €

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Some of our R&D projects...
MEASURE
AI-BASED ANALYSIS OF MIGRATION MOBILITY
PATTERNS FOR PROFESSIONAL AND SURVIVAL
PURPOSES
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Presented to...

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Some of our R&D projects...
PRO2
FAKER
PROACTIVE PROFILING OF FAKE NEWS
SPREADERS
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In preparation...

40. Fake News - Real Cases

41. Fake News - Real Cases

42. Fake News - Real Cases

43. Fake News - Who is behind?

44. Troll Factories

45. Troll Factories
1st. Floor: ex journalists
4th. Floor: dept. focused on Twitter
and Facebook (+bar)

46. DISinformation
Disinformation presents the following characteristics:
- Fake news, hoaxes and lies travel faster than the truth.
- More sensational headlines.
- Use of a more aggressive language, hate messages.
- Contradictory, partial and / or decontextualised messages.
- Polarized opinions in closed communities of users (confirmation bias and echo chamber).
- Certain users are more predisposed to share this type of misinformation (profiles).
Why do not we take advantage of them to detect fake news?
Our vision of the problem

47. Overview
ProFaker
ProFake detects fake information shared in social media
(open sources and / or information provided by the user)
through the combined analysis of:
- Texts and multimedia (video, image and audio) of related
information.
- User networks where fakes information is shared.
- The profile of the users who share the fake information.
EARLY
DETECTION
OF
THREATENING
MENTIONS
Example of a fake news shared in a newsletter
Our vision of the solution

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Some of our R&D projects...
IROSVA
IRONY DETECTION IN SPANISH VARIETIES
SHARED TASK AT IBERLEF@SEPLN'19
http://www.autoritas.net/IroSvA2019/
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IroSvA task at IberLEF@SEPLN 2019
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This year we propose the new task (IroSvA) which aims at investigating whether a
short message, written in Spanish language, is ironic or not with respect to a given
context. In particular, we aim at studying the way irony changes in distinct Spanish
variants.
● Subtask A: Irony detection in Spanish tweets from Spain
● Subtask B: Irony detection in Spanish tweets from Mexico
● Subtask C: Irony detection in Spanish news comments from Cuba

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IroSvA task at IberLEF@SEPLN 2019
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...with respect to a given context.
SPAIN MEXICO CUBA
Declaración Joan Tardà Conacyt Televisión digital cubana
El Relator Comisión Reguladora Energía Escándalos deportivos
Libro de Pedro Sánchez Desabasto gasolina ETECSA, calidad y servicios
Exhumación de Franco Divorcio Enrique Peña Nieto ETECSA, Internet y datos móviles
Grezzi Estancias infantiles Transporte, boteros, chóferes...
Semáforos de la A5 Gobierno CDMX Nuevas tecnologías
Tierraplanistas Comercio interior
Programa Ven a Cenar Gobierno AMLO Economía: turismo y hoteles
Campaña #yoconalbert Película Roma Ciencia, educación y cultura
Pablo Iglesias en el Hormiguero Venezuela

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IroSvA task at IberLEF@SEPLN 2019
SPAIN MEXICO CUBA TOTAL
TRAINING IRONIC 800 800 800 2,400
NO-IRONIC 1,600 1,600 1,600 4,800
TOTAL 2,400 2,400 2,400 7,200
TEST IRONIC 200 200 200 600
NO-IRONIC 400 400 400 1,200
TOTAL 600 600 600 1,800
TOTAL IRONIC 1,000 1,000 1,000 3,000
NO IRONIC 2,000 2,000 2,000 6,000
TOTAL 3,000 3,000 3,000 9,000
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● 10th February 2019, 23:00 UTC: Call for Participation and Website of the task.
● 30th March 2019, 23:00 UTC: Training set available.
● 16th April 2019, 23:00 UTC: Testing set available.
● 23rd April 2019, 23:00 UTC: Submission of runs.
● 30th April 2019, 23:00 UTC: Notification of results.
● 15th May 2019, 23:00 UTC: Submission of Working Notes by participants.
● 30th May 2019, 23:00 UTC: Reviews to participants (peer-reviews).
● 10th June 2019, 23:00 UTC: Camera-ready submissions due.
● 20th June 2019, 23:00 UTC: Submission of the camera-ready version of
Working Notes.
IroSvA task at IberLEF@SEPLN 2019 - Important Dates