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My role, group, and research

I hold the position of Director at the Knowledge Media Institute, where I have founded and currently lead the interdisciplinary Social Data Science group. Our cutting-edge research is dedicated to the field of computational social science, utilising advanced methodologies to create models, gain insights, and track various social phenomena in the digital landscape. This undertaking draws upon the collective expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web Technologies, and Social Computing, synergizing their capabilities for impactful outcomes.

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Projects

Current and Recent projects

Co-Inform
Co-Creating Misinformation-Resilient Societies
COMRADES
Collective Platform for Community Resilience & Social Innovation During Crises
DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change
CIMPLE
Countering Creative Information Manipulation with Explainable AI
HERoS
Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems
TRIVALENT
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media.
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CORE at Open Repositories 2024
CORE at Open Repositories 2024

This summer the 19th annual Open Repositories Conference will take place from June 3rd to 6th at the Clarion Post Hotel in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Publications

Most recent publications

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Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech, 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Leipzig, Germany

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Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media, HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy

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Mensio, M., Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H. (2023) MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts' Sharing of Misinformation, UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Limassol Cyprus

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Pavon Perez, A., Fernandez, M., Al-Madfai, H., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis, WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, Austin, TX, USA

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Tavakoli, A., Alani, H. and Burel, G. (2023) On the Readability of Misinformation in Comparison to the Truth, Text2Story 2023, Ireland

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Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E. and Alani, H. (2022) Supporting Online Toxicity Detection with Knowledge Graphs, Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Atlanta, Georgia

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