Интелигентно управление
The Intelligent Government (iGov) research domain at GATE Institute is an interdisciplinary research initiative focused on computational disinformation analysis, digital governance, and democratic resilience.
Introduction
The team brings together experts in data science, cognitive science, political science, and linguistics to understand and counter false or manipulative information through computational social science and artificial intelligence.
Research goes beyond traditional fact-checking by analyzing rhetorical strategies, narrative structures, and socio-political impacts of manipulative discourse.
The initiative emphasizes:
- Multilingual analysis (particularly Bulgarian and English)
- Human–AI collaboration
- Scalable solutions for researchers, policymakers, journalists, and educators
GATE’s iGov team also leads the Bulgarian–Romanian Observatory on Digital Media (BROD) — a regional hub of 12 partners combating disinformation in Southeastern Europe.
Focus Areas
Foundational Layer
Detection, Ontology, and Data Infrastructure: Developing robust datasets and baseline AI models to support the detection of manipulative content and its structures.
Fallacy Detection Tool
An AI system for automatically identifying logical fallacies in text using a unified nine-class taxonomy, including a high-quality Bulgarian model based on XLM-RoBERTa.
Detection of Synthetic Content
An AI system for automatically identifying logical fallacies in text using a unified nine-class taxonomy, including a high-quality Bulgarian model based on XLM-RoBERTa.
Linguistic Data Spaces and Ontology Development
An AI system for automatically identifying logical fallacies in text using a unified nine-class taxonomy, including a high-quality Bulgarian model based on XLM-RoBERTa.
Analytical Engine
An AI system for automatically identifying logical fallacies in text using a unified nine-class taxonomy, including a high-quality Bulgarian model based on XLM-RoBERTa.
Applied Platform Development – PODIA Assistant
An AI-powered political analysis tool that applies retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to evaluate texts against political science frameworks.
Strategic Application:
From Insight to Resilience: Turning research insights into cognitive science-based educational materials and media literacy tools that build ‘information immunity’ in society.
Targeted R&D Directions
Integration of Core Capabilities
Combining fallacy and synthetic content models as core components for higher-level analytical tools
Platform as an Integrator
The PODIA platform consolidates insights across analytical tools, providing multidimensional disinformation mapping
Empirically-Grounded Frameworks
The Cognitive Warfare framework draws on empirical data to inform resilience models and threat analysis
Calibrated Interventions
Designing data-driven media literacy initiatives based on empirically identified manipulation patterns
Strategic Collaborations
Active cooperation with GATE projects like B-Clear, ontology development, and Graph Neural Network initiatives
Team & Collaborators
Scientific Publications
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