KMi at ISWC2018
Every year the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the main destination for many researchers in the Semantic Web community....Read more
Miriam Fernandez
Senior Research Fellow
Miriam Fernandez
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Miriam Fernandez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, and a member of KMi's Social Data Science Group. Before joining KMi, she was research associate at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain and software engineer (internship) at Google Zurich, Switzerland. Her research is at the intersection of the Web Science (WS) and Semantic Web communities (SW), where she has contributed with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in various leading conferences and journals. She has extensive expertise in leading EU and national projects. She frequently participates in organising committees and editorial boards of the top SW and WS conferences, recently being program co-chair of the International Semantic Web conference in 2017, and serving as editor for the Journal of Web Semantics. Dr. Fernandez is the Athena SWAN champion for KMi, leading key initiatives to increase equality diversity in higher education.
KMi hosts first misinformation workshop for the OU
On October 4th, 2018 KMi hosted the first Misinformation Workshop for OU researchers working on the topic of mis/dis/information, education and information literacy....Read more
KMi@WebScience2018
This year was a very special edition of the WebScience 2018 conference....Read more
KMi @The Web Conference 2018
KMi once again had a strong presence at The Web Conference, which this year was held in Lyon, France from 23-27 April, and was attended by over 2300 delegates....Read more
TRIVALENT
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media. ...Read more
ReelLives
Development of filmic representations of social media content for individuals and groups using a mixture of semantic, content, and network analysis...Read more
Sense4Us
tools and techniques to enable policy makers to gather, integrate, and analyse policy-related discussions...Read more
DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change...Read more
Piccolo, L., De Liddo, A., Burel, G., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Collective intelligence for promoting changes in behaviour: a case study on energy conservation, AI & SOCIETY, pp. 1-11
Lastra-Díaz, J, García-Serrano, A, Batet, M, Fernandez, M. and Chirigati, F (2017) HESML: a scalable ontology-based semantic similarity measures library with a set of reproducible experiments and a replication dataset, Information Systems
Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L, Mulholland, P., Briggs, P and Alani, H. (2016) Detecting Important Life Events on Twitter Using Frequent Semantic and Syntactic Subgraphs, IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 14, 2, pp. 23-37
Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L, Mulholland, P., Briggs, P and Alani, H. (2016) Identifying Important Life Events from Twitter Using Semantic and Syntactic Patterns, 15th International Conference WWW/Internet 2016, Mannheim, Germany
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