IDIR Lab at UT-Arlington

10/24/2021

IDIR lab picnic, Fall 2021

04/28/2021

Congratulations to the IDIR Lab's member, Israa Jaradat on receiving NCWIT Collegiate Honorable Mention, for the second time!

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04/28/2021

The Innovative Data Intelligence Research Laboratory
presented FactWatcher, a system that falls under the umbrella of a young field called "computational journalism".

FactWatcher helps journalists identify data-backed, attention-seizing facts, leads to news stories.

01/06/2021

Congratulations to the IDIR Lab's members, Israa Jaradat and Fatma Arslan, as the finalists for NCWIT collegiate awards!

“We’re excited to announce the 82 finalists for the Collegiate Award! The NCWIT Collegiate Award honors outstanding technical contributions to projects by women, genderqueer, and nonbinary undergrad and graduate students. See the full list: https://t.co/yMzbgmqWRP.”

04/02/2020

The IDIR Lab's member, Israa Jaradat, has been awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! We are proud of her and can't wait to see all the amazing things she will continue to do. Go Israa!

03/26/2020

Check out our Medium article "Re-evaluation of Knowledge Graph Completion Methods", written by Farahnaz Akrami, about her recently accepted SIGMOD2020 paper.

The study shows that data redundancy and test leakage in widely-used benchmark datasets caused overestimation of the accuracy of many knowledge graph completion models, as large as 175% in some case. Moreover, many of the test instances used for evaluating the models are unrealistic and nonexistent in real-world scenarios. The accuracy of these models, much weaker than we used to perceive, renders link prediction a task without truly effective automated solution. It thus calls for re-investigation of possible effective approaches to this important, challenging problem.

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written by Farahnaz Akrami

03/06/2020

03/05/2020

Don't miss our new article about "Finding Factual Claims with BERT" written by Damian Jimenez!

Around 5 years ago our group at the IDIR Lab began the research project which is now known as ClaimBuster. Today we are presenting updates…

02/06/2019