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2026

• Oct 3, 2026Service

  The Third Bangla Language Processing (BLP) Workshop, co-organized by Naeemul Hassan, is accepted as a one-day workshop co-located with NAACL 2027.

• Aug 2026People

  Fuad Al Abir joins the lab as a Ph.D. student.

• Apr 17, 2026Preprint

  New preprint: MOMENTA: Mixture-of-Experts Over Multimodal Embeddings with Neural Temporal Aggregation for Misinformation Detection Read

2025

• Dec 2025Service

  Naeemul Hassan serves as Program Chair of the Second Bangla Language Processing (BLP) Workshop at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.

• Oct 22, 2025Paper

  New paper in CBMI 2025: A Survey of Information Disorder on Video-Sharing Platforms Read

• Aug 25, 2025Paper

  New paper in ASONAM 2025: Can Honest Headlines Engage? Correcting Misleading Headlines to Improve Credibility, Comprehension, and Engagement Read

• Aug 19, 2025Graduation

  Dr. Yoo Yeon (Sophie) Sung defends a Ph.D. dissertation on human-grounded AI tools for challenging and trustworthy text, and joins Hippocratic AI as an Applied Scientist.

• May 28, 2025Graduation

  Dr. Md Main Uddin Rony defends a Ph.D. dissertation on misleading news headlines and joins Bowling Green State University as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

• May 21, 2025Preprint

  New preprint: Semantic-based Unsupervised Framing Analysis (SUFA): A Novel Approach for Computational Framing Analysis Read

• Apr 2025Paper

  New paper in NAACL Findings 2025: LlamaLens: Specialized multilingual llm for analyzing news and social media content Read

• Mar 28, 2025Graduation

  Dr. Mohammad Ali defends a Ph.D. dissertation on computational framing analysis and joins the University of North Dakota as an Assistant Professor.

• 2025Award

  Naeemul Hassan is promoted to Associate Professor in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism and the College of Information.

• 2025Talk

  Naeemul Hassan presents a comparative computational analysis of misinformation and political narratives in U.S. ethnic media at the Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025.

• 2025Paper

  New paper in C+J 2025: Between Consensus and Ambiguity: Expert Evaluation of LLM Explanations for Misleading Headlines Read

2024

• Jun 2024Grant

  The Minerva Research Initiative funds a subaward to measure Chinese media influence along the Belt and Road.

• May 11, 2024Paper

  New paper in CHI 2024: Towards Designing a Question-Answering Chatbot for Online News: Understanding Questions and Perspectives Read

• May 6, 2024Paper

  New paper in CHI HEAL 2024: Exploring the Potential of the Large Language Models (LLMs) in Identifying Misleading News Headlines Read

• May 2024Dataset

  We release a dataset of questions readers asked news authors and a chatbot. Read

• Mar 2024Grant

  The International Center for Journalists funds narrative tracking in U.S. ethnic media.

• 2024Talk

  Lab members present “Perceptions and Corrections of Misleading News Headlines: Insights from Journalists and News Consumers” at the Computation + Journalism Symposium 2024.

2023

• Dec 3, 2023Paper

  New paper in Sex Med 2023: “O” no: a Reddit analysis of orgasmic dysfunction Read

• Dec 2023Paper

  New paper in EMNLP 2023: Not all fake news is written: A dataset and analysis of misleading video headlines Read

• Aug 2023Grant

  A University of Maryland Grand Challenges award funds research on how local communities seek information and assess threats to health.

• Aug 2023Award

  “Semantic-based Unsupervised Framing Analysis (SUFA)” wins Top Method Paper in the Communication Theory and Methodology Division at AEJMC 2023.

• Jun 2023Grant

  The lab joins the NSF–NIST Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS), with Naeemul Hassan as senior personnel.

• Apr 1, 2023Paper

  New paper in JAMIA Open 2023: #Coronavirus on TikTok: user engagement with misinformation as a potential threat to public health behavior Read

• Mar 2023Paper

  New paper in J Sex Med 2023: A qualitative analysis of female Reddit users’ experiences with low libido: how do women perceive their changes in sexual desire? Read

• 2023Award

  Naeemul Hassan receives the Exemplary Researcher Award at the Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.

2022

• Dec 2022Paper

  New paper in EMNLP 2022: A Survey of Computational Framing Analysis Approaches Read

• Aug 22, 2022Paper

  New paper in JMIR Cancer 2022: Exploring Urological Malignancies on Pinterest: Content Analysis Read

2021

• Jul 2021Grant

  The National Science Foundation funds a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement.

• Jun 28, 2021Paper

  New paper in DIS 2021: FoodScrap: Promoting rich data capture and reflective food journaling through speech input Read

• May 6, 2021Paper

  New paper in CHI 2021: Does Clickbait Actually Attract More Clicks? Three Clickbait Studies You Must Read Read

• Apr 22, 2021Paper

  New paper in CSCW 2021: Exploring the Tensions between the Owners and the Drivers of Uber Cars in Urban Bangladesh Read

2020

• Oct 25, 2020Paper

  New paper in IEEE VIS 2020: ClaimViz: Visual Analytics for Identifying and Verifying Factual Claims Read

• Oct 20, 2020Paper

  New paper in IEEE JBHI 2020: Automatically Assessing Quality of Online Health Articles Read

• Oct 14, 2020Paper

  New paper in CSCW 2020: Combating misinformation in Bangladesh: Roles and responsibilities as perceived by journalists, fact-checkers, and users Read

• Jul 29, 2020Preprint

  New preprint: Towards Domain-Specific Characterization of Misinformation Read

• Jul 2020Grant

  The National Science Foundation funds BaitBuster 2.0: Keeping Users Away From Clickbait, a collaborative SaTC award with Utah State University. Read

• May 26, 2020Paper

  New paper in ICWSM 2020: Towards Automated Sexual Violence Report Tracking Read

• May 26, 2020Paper

  New paper in ICWSM 2020: A Benchmark Dataset of Check-Worthy Factual Claims Read

• Jan 4, 2020Paper

  New paper in GROUP 2020: Understanding the Challenges for Bangladeshi Women to Participate in #MeToo Movement Read

• 2020Paper

  New paper in AEJMC 2020: Varying amounts of information in health news headlines can affect user selection and interactivity Read

2019

• Nov 25, 2019Preprint

  New preprint: Examining the Role of Clickbait Headlines to Engage Readers with Reliable Health-related Information Read

• Nov 2019Paper

  New paper in ECSA 2019: Detection of Drinking via Inertial Sensor Read

• Aug 27, 2019Paper

  New paper in ASONAM 2019: Understanding the silence of sexual harassment victims through the #WhyIDidntReport movement Read

• Aug 27, 2019Paper

  New paper in ASONAM 2019: Can women break the glass ceiling? an analysis of #MeToo hashtagged posts on Twitter Read

• Aug 21, 2019Paper

  New paper in MedInfo 2019: A Large-Scale Analysis of Health Journalism by Reliable and Unreliable Media Read

• May 13, 2019Paper

  New paper in WWW 2019: Examining the Roles of Automation, Crowds and Professionals Towards Sustainable Fact-checking Read

• May 13, 2019Paper

  New paper in WWW 2019: Differences in Health News from Reliable and Unreliable Media Read

• May 7, 2019Paper

  New paper in JDIQ 2019: Introduction to the Special Issue on Combating Digital Misinformation and Disinformation Read

• Jan 4, 2019Paper

  New paper in ICTD 2019: Nonparticipation of bangladeshi women in #MeToo movement Read