Walter J Scheirer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4907968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter J Scheirer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter J |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheirer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEIRER W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9649-8074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Visual narratives and political instability
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet
AI-powered misinformation detectors—artificial intelligence tools that identify false or inaccurate online content—have emerged as a potential intervention for helping internet users understand the veracity of the content they view. However, the algorithms used to create these detectors are experimental and largely untested at the scale necessary to be effective on a social media platform. Furthermore, the assumptions programmed into these algori…
Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
This paper describes a collaborative project designed to meet the needs of communities interested in Gə'əz language texts – and other under-resourced manuscript traditions – by developing an easy-to-use open-source tool that converts images of manuscript pages into a transcription using optical character recognition (OCR). Our computational tool incorporates a custom data curation process to address the language-specific facets of Gə'əz coupled w…
Tesserae Intertext Service
The Tesserae Intertext Service Application Programming Interface (TIS-API) enhances the machine-accessibility of the intertext discovery capabilities of the Tesserae software. Instead of requiring inputs through a human-accessible webpage, the TIS-API accepts inputs according to a web development standard. Two case studies demonstrate the contributions of the TIS-API to computer-assisted literary criticism, particularly in increased software deve…
Meme warfare
From QAnon conspiracy theories to Russian government sponsored election interference, social media disinformation campaigns are a part of online life, and identifying these threats amid the posts that billions of social media users upload each day is a challenge. To help sort through massive amounts of data, social media platforms are developing AI systems to automatically remove harmful content primarily through text-based analysis. But these te…
An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections
We’re developing an AI early warning system to monitor how manipulated content online such as altered photos in memes leads, in some cases, to violent conflict and societal instability. It can also potentially interfere with democratic elections. Look no further than the 2019 Indonesian election to learn how online disinformation can have an unfortunate impact on the real world. Our system may prove useful to journalists, peacekeepers, election m…
A pandemic of bad science
What can epidemiological models tell us about our potential exposure to COVID-19? What progress is being made with regard to coronavirus vaccine development? These days, the general public is asking these questions and more as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. That there is an extraordinary level of interest in coronavirus news should come as no surprise, but this elevated interest society now has in pandemic-related science has unintended conseque…
An AI early warning system to monitor online disinformation, stop violence, and protect elections
We’re developing an AI early warning system to monitor how manipulated content online such as altered photos in memes leads, in some cases, to violent conflict and societal instability. It can also potentially interfere with democratic elections. Look no further than the 2019 Indonesian election to learn how online disinformation can have an unfortunate impact on the real world. Our system may prove useful to journalists, peacekeepers, election m…
A pandemic of bad science
What can epidemiological models tell us about our potential exposure to COVID-19? What progress is being made with regard to coronavirus vaccine development? These days, the general public is asking these questions and more as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. That there is an extraordinary level of interest in coronavirus news should come as no surprise, but this elevated interest society now has in pandemic-related science has unintended conseque…
Meme warfare
From QAnon conspiracy theories to Russian government sponsored election interference, social media disinformation campaigns are a part of online life, and identifying these threats amid the posts that billions of social media users upload each day is a challenge. To help sort through massive amounts of data, social media platforms are developing AI systems to automatically remove harmful content primarily through text-based analysis. But these te…
Tesserae Intertext Service
The Tesserae Intertext Service Application Programming Interface (TIS-API) enhances the machine-accessibility of the intertext discovery capabilities of the Tesserae software. Instead of requiring inputs through a human-accessible webpage, the TIS-API accepts inputs according to a web development standard. Two case studies demonstrate the contributions of the TIS-API to computer-assisted literary criticism, particularly in increased software deve…
Automated Transcription of Gə'əz Manuscripts Using Deep Learning
This paper describes a collaborative project designed to meet the needs of communities interested in Gə'əz language texts – and other under-resourced manuscript traditions – by developing an easy-to-use open-source tool that converts images of manuscript pages into a transcription using optical character recognition (OCR). Our computational tool incorporates a custom data curation process to address the language-specific facets of Gə'əz coupled w…
AI misinformation detectors can’t save us from tyranny—at least not yet
AI-powered misinformation detectors—artificial intelligence tools that identify false or inaccurate online content—have emerged as a potential intervention for helping internet users understand the veracity of the content they view. However, the algorithms used to create these detectors are experimental and largely untested at the scale necessary to be effective on a social media platform. Furthermore, the assumptions programmed into these algori…
Visual narratives and political instability
Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Internet privacy (4 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Disinformation (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social media (2 works)