HYBRIDS

is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral training network funded by the European Union (EU) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Its main scientific objective is to provide researchers with the knowledge needed to design strategies and tools to respond to misinformation based on an in-depth analysis of public discourse.

The project integrates the structured knowledge provided by the social and human sciences into natural language processing tools and deep learning algorithms. By developing new hybrid intelligence systems, machine and human intelligence are combined to overcome the shortcomings of existing artificial intelligence methods.

Hybrids has 11 participating projects, which can have up to three supervisors at most. CITIC researchers Patricia Martín Rodilla and Javier Parapar López participate as supervisors in several projects. Specifically, Patricia co-supervises “Towards an automatic characterization of micro-level structures in discourse from social networks” and “Identifying the stance of argumentative opinions in the political discourse”; and Javier Parapar is the main supervisor of “Detecting harassment on social media beyond isolated messages”.

The first meeting of the Hybrids project will be held at the CiTIUS of the University of Santiago de Compostela from September 18 to 22. This meeting will serve to get to know the candidates of each group in order to initiate the first steps of the research on hybrid artificial intelligence.