{"id":3479,"date":"2022-09-19T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clup.pt\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:59:22","slug":"recrutamento-de-dois-duas-anotadores-as-em-regime-de-prestacao-de-servicos-no-ambito-do-projeto-maict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Recrutamento de dois\/duas anotadores\/as em regime de presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os, no \u00e2mbito do projeto MAICT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MAICT: A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projeto EXPL\/LLT-LIN\/1104\/2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recrutamento de dois\/duas anotadores\/as em regime de presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os, no \u00e2mbito do projeto MAICT – A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media – EXPL\/LLT-LIN\/1104\/2021, financiado pela FCT FUNDA\u00c7\u00c3O PARA A CI\u00caNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dura\u00e7\u00e3o da presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 meses, com in\u00edcio em outubro de 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remunera\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A remunera\u00e7\u00e3o mensal da presente presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os \u00e9 de 875.98\u20ac (equivalente aos valores estipulados no Regulamento de bolsas da Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, cujas tabelas est\u00e3o dispon\u00edveis em https:\/\/www.fct.pt\/apoios\/bolsas\/docs\/Tabela_de_Valores_SMM_2022.pdf<\/a>), valor a ser liquidado mensalmente por transfer\u00eancia banc\u00e1ria para a conta banc\u00e1ria indicada pelo\/a prestador\/a de servi\u00e7os.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objetivos\/plano de trabalho:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O principal objetivo do projeto \u00e9 investigar e formalizar de forma sistem\u00e1tica as principais propriedades lingu\u00edsticas, discursivas e semi\u00f3ticas utilizadas na produ\u00e7\u00e3o de teorias da conspira\u00e7\u00e3o, recorrendo a diferentes modos – tratando-se, por conseguinte, de uma abordagem multimodal. O projeto prev\u00ea a cria\u00e7\u00e3o de recursos lingu\u00edsticos inovadores que possam ser utilizados para prestar apoio \u00e0 dete\u00e7\u00e3o e classifica\u00e7\u00e3o autom\u00e1tica de socioletos utilizados para produzir teorias da conspira\u00e7\u00e3o divulgadas nos media sociais contempor\u00e2neos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\/a candidato\/a a recrutar no \u00e2mbito deste projeto ir\u00e1 trabalhar na an\u00e1lise e na anota\u00e7\u00e3o de textos de um corpus multimodal de teorias da conspira\u00e7\u00e3o recolhidos a partir de meios online (tais como, mas n\u00e3o exclusivamente, plataformas das redes sociais e\/ou blogs). A anota\u00e7\u00e3o manual basear-se-\u00e1 numa taxonomia de elementos lingu\u00edsticos e discursivos, conforme a investiga\u00e7\u00e3o mais recente na \u00e1rea da lingu\u00edstica forense. Esta taxonomia inclui: i) caracter\u00edsticas idiossincr\u00e1ticas identificadas na literatura como sendo discriminat\u00f3rias; e ii) padr\u00f5es identificados com base numa an\u00e1lise preliminar do corpus recolhido no \u00e2mbito do projeto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orienta\u00e7\u00e3o cient\u00edfica:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As atividades ser\u00e3o orientadas por Rui Sousa-Silva, Professor Auxiliar da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto e investigador do CLUP, e por Paula Cristina Quaresma da Fonseca Carvalho, Investigadora do INESC-ID Lisboa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requisitos: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\/A candidato\/a dever\u00e1: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a) possuir Mestrado em Ci\u00eancias da Linguagem ou \u00e1rea afim; ou <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) frequentar Mestrado em Ci\u00eancias da Linguagem ou \u00e1rea afim; ou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c) frequentar Doutoramento em Ci\u00eancias da Linguagem ou \u00e1rea afim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatores preferenciais:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ser\u00e1 dada prefer\u00eancia a candidatos que possuam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Conhecimentos\/interesse na \u00e1rea da lingu\u00edstica forense, an\u00e1lise cr\u00edtica do discurso, processamento de linguagem natural e\/ou lingu\u00edstica computacional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Conhecimentos de lingu\u00edstica de corpus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Elevados conhecimentos de l\u00edngua inglesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Experi\u00eancia pr\u00e9via em anota\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formaliza\u00e7\u00e3o de candidaturas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Para formalizarem a sua candidatura, os candidatos dever\u00e3o enviar para o endere\u00e7o de correio eletr\u00f3nico rssilva@letras.up.pt<\/a> os documentos infra, em formato pdf.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– C\u00f3pia do certificado de habilita\u00e7\u00f5es;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Lista detalhada de classifica\u00e7\u00f5es;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Prova de inscri\u00e7\u00e3o (no caso de se encontrar insrito\/a em Mestrado ou Doutoramento a decorrer);        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Curriculum Vitae detalhado;          <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Carta de motiva\u00e7\u00e3o, justificando o interesse na presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os;    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prazo de candidatura:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At\u00e9 \u00e0s 24 horas do dia 27 de setembro de 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resumo do projeto:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAICT: A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aversive feelings that people experience in scenarios of crisis, such as fear, uncertainty, and the feeling of being out of control, stimulate adherence to conspiracies and promote their fast propagation [PROO17]. The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most challenging global societal crises we are facing nowadays, has boosted the proliferation of conspiracy theories on social media to unprecedented levels. According to recent studies, denialism, i.e. the psychological predisposition to reject expert and authoritative information, the conspiracy thinking, i.e. tendency to view challenging societal events as the product of conspiracies, and partisanship are the the key ingredients behind COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs [USCI20]. While some conspiracy theories may have no huge impact on people\u2019s lives, others, such as the ones related to medical and public health topics can be particularly dangerous for individuals and a menace to democratic societies. Therefore, research on misinformation, including conspiracy theories, is becoming  increasingly relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although there is a diversity of approaches on conspiracy theories from different fields, including psychology, political science, sociology, history, and media studies [DOUG19], research on the language mechanisms and strategies used in conspiracy narratives abounding in social media is still scarce. The advent of large social media platforms offers an unique opportunity to access an immensity of real-world data that will allow answering crucial research questions related to language use and communication dynamics. One critical question concerns the identification of the main conspiracy sociolects (i.e. the sociolinguistic characteristics shared by authors of conspiracy theories) in social media. Another important issue concerns the identification of the most important relationships between complementary modes of communication – particularly, text and image – co-occurring in the same conspiracy content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multimodal approaches, relying on the joint analysis of language patterns from multiple modalities, are critical to dissecting conspiracy theories, key to  the development of robust and reliable conspiracy detection systems. This exploratory project aims at developing an innovative multimodal (text-image) conspiracy grammar for Portuguese, based on a multidisciplinary approach, crossing knowledge and methods from Corpus Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research will be based on a large and representative multimodal corpus composed of text-image conspiracy content posted by Portuguese speaking users in a variety of social media platforms and blogs. This corpus will be finely-grained annotated with syntactic-semantic, pragmatic-discursive, and social semiotic attributes. These will allow performing complex and refined queries on the corpus, in order to identify relevant multimodal patterns, which will be thus systematically described in our conspiracy grammar. The challenges in the grammar creation involve, among other aspects, the integration and articulation of objective and subjective knowledge from different sources, and the dynamic description of a huge set of relationships involving all the language dimensions considered in this study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This innovative resource will contribute both to the systematic characterization of multimodal conspiracy narratives in social media, and will help to understand how linguistics, pragmatics and social semiotics interact to create new and engaging conspiracy narratives. Furthermore, it will support the development of methods for conspiracy detection, and machine-assisted conspiracy sociolects identification.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe that this exploratory project will contribute to advancing the state-of-the-art in multimodal misinformation studies, answering, among others, the following research questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.         Which are the most predominant morphosyntactic, lexico-syntactic, semantic and discursive features in conspiracy theory narratives that abound in social media, and how do they relate to each other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.         Which meanings can be inferred from images that include conspiracy narratives, from a social semiotics point of view?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.         How do text and image articulate in multimodal conspiracy narratives to create either a unified or a dissociated meaning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.         Which are the most suitable approaches to describe and formalize the multimodal properties from text and image, and respective interaction, in view of their automatic processing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.         How can Portuguese conspiracy sociolects be characterized from a multimodal point of view?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have formed a multidisciplinary research team including researchers from corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, discourse studies, social semiotics and natural language processing, critical to successfully achieve the project\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAICT: A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media Projeto EXPL\/LLT-LIN\/1104\/2021 Recrutamento de dois\/duas anotadores\/as em regime de presta\u00e7\u00e3o de servi\u00e7os, no \u00e2mbito do projeto MAICT – A Multimodal Approach for Identifying Conspiracy Theories in Social Media – EXPL\/LLT-LIN\/1104\/2021, financiado pela FCT FUNDA\u00c7\u00c3O PARA A CI\u00caNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA.  Dura\u00e7\u00e3o da presta\u00e7\u00e3o de […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3479","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-noticias"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/id.letras.up.pt\/clup\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}