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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 research draws upon the collective expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web Technologies, and Social Computing, synergising their capabilities for impactful socio-technical 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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Burel, G., Mensio, M., Peskine, Y., Troncy, R., Papotti, P. and Alani, H. (2024) CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks, ISWC 2024, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Burel, G., Tavakoli, M. and Alani, H. (2024) Exploring the impact of automated correction of misinformation in social media, AI Magazine, pp. (early access)

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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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