Simplicity in Truth, Complexity in Lies – Disinformation Research Findings Presented at the COMPTEXT 2026 International Conference

Xinying Chen presented the results of linguistic research on syntactic structures in disinformation texts at the prestigious COMPTEXT 2026 conference. In her presentation, titled “Simplicity in truth, complexity in lies: Syntactic patterns in Czech news,” she demonstrated how modern quantitative text analysis methods can identify specific structural patterns in Czech news based on their credibility.

The conference provided an excellent opportunity to consult project outputs in an international environment with leading experts dedicated to data analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective. COMPTEXT 2026 (The Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Text, Image, Audio, and Video as Data) was held from April 23–25, 2026, at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. This event is one of the world's foremost forums for researchers utilizing computational methods in the social sciences and humanities.

This research is being conducted as part of Working Package No. 1 – Disinformation texts from the perspective of 21^st-century linguistics, within the project “Biography of Fake News with a Touch of AI: A Dangerous Phenomenon through the Prism of Modern Human Sciences” (OP JAK, Reg. No. CZ.02.01.01/00/23_025/0008724).

Updated: 29. 04. 2026