Katedra českého jazyka FF OU

International Workshop on Corpus-Based Analysis of Disinformation Texts

Date: August 20, 2025

Location: Room E-204, tř. Čs. legií 150/9, Ostrava


This workshop presents the ongoing research from the grant project Biography of Fake News with a Touch of AI: Dangerous Phenomenon through the Prism of Modern Human Sciences. The focus will be on Research Work Package 1.1, which examines Czech disinformation texts using contemporary quantitative linguistic methods.

The research utilizes a corpus comprising both disinformation and standard news media texts to identify distinctive features of fake news at the lexical, syntactic, and morphological levels. The aim is to share current findings, showcase methodology, and foster scholarly discussion on the direction of future work.


Program

TimeSpeaker(s)Topic
14:00–14:30Miroslav KubátIntroduction to the Project
14:30–15:00Michaela NogolováData: Sources and Corpus Construction
15:00–15:45Michal MísteckýMorphological Analysis
15:45–16:30Xinying ChenSyntactic Features of Fake News
16:30–17:15Michal Místecký & Michaela NogolováLexical Characteristics
17:15–18:00Break
18:00–21:00Group Discussion

This workshop was supported by Operational Program Jan Ámos Komenský project ‘Biography of Fake News with a Touch of AI: Dangerous Phenomenon through the Prism of Modern Human Sciences’ (reg. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008724)

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