KMi, the first 25 years
At the 25th Anniversary KMi Festival we invited staff from across the OU campus to come and find out how our latest knowledge and media technologies are impacting education, science, and cities....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.
OUAnalyse shortlisted for the THE 2019 Awards!
OU Analyse has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Awards (THE 2019 Awards) in the category Technological or Digital Innovation of the Year! Conceived in 2013 by Prof....Read more
WIRED Magazine Interviews KMI researchers
This week, WIRED Magazine released an article covering KMI’s ongoing work about networked misogyny and misogynistic language online....Read more
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
TRIVALENT
EU H2020 project to develop advanced method for detecting and measuring violent radicalisation behaviour on social media. ...Read more
DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change...Read more
Tobaili, T., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Sharafeddine, S, Hajj, H and Glavas, G (2019) SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi), RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria
Farrell, T., Fernandez, M., Novotny, J. and Alani, H. (2019) Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit, WebSci19, Boston
Fernandez, M., Gonzalez-Pardo, A. and Alani, H. (2019) Radicalisation Influence in Social Media, Radicalisation Influence in Social Media, 6
Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Contextual Semantics for Radicalisation Detection on Twitter, Workshop: Semantic Web for Social Good Workshop (SW4SG) at International Semantic Web Conference 2018, CEUR
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The Open University
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