Gregoire Burel

Research Associate

I am a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi). My work involves the development and application of machine learning techniques and social semantics for the investigation of user behaviour in different settings (e.g. answering behaviour, energy consumption habits, emerging behaviour in emergency crisis and misinformation tracking), the development of visualisation tools and platforms (e.g. energyuse.eu, fcobservatory.org) and ontological models (e.g. DoRES, EUse,Veracity, Curio).

I am currently involved in the EU founded Co-Inform and HeROS projects where he is investigating if fact-checking has an impact on the spread of online misinformation.

Keywords

Social Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Misinformation, User Value, Natural Language Processing, Online Communities

Publications

Burel, GrÃ©goire, Mensio, Martino, Peskine, Youri, Troncy, Raphael, Papotti, Paolo and Alani, Harith ,(2024). CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks. In: ISWC 2024, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, 11-15 Nov 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Burel, GrÃ©goire, Tavakoli, Mohammadali and Alani, Harith ,(2024). Exploring the impact of automated correction of misinformation in social media. AI Magazine, 45(2), pp. 227â245.

Burel, GrÃ©goire and Alani, Harith ,(2023). The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media. In: The 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 4-8 Sep 2023, Rome, Italy.

Mensio, Martino, Burel, Gregoire, Farrell, Tracie and Alani, Harith ,(2023). MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accountsâ Sharing of Misinformation. In: UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 26-29 Jun 2023, Limassol Cyprus.

PavÃ³n PÃ©rez, Ãngel, Fernandez, Miriam, Al-Madfai, Hasan, Burel, GrÃ©goire and Alani, Harith ,(2023). Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis. In: WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, 30 Apr - 1 May 2023, Austin, TX, USA.

Tavakoli, Mohammadali, Alani, Harith and Burel, Gregoire ,(2023). On the Readability of Misinformation in Comparison to the Truth. In: Text2Story 2023, 02/04/2023, Ireland.

Kwarteng, Joseph, Farrell, Tracie, Third, Aisling, Burel, Gregoire and Fernandez, Miriam ,(2023). Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotatorsâ Perspectives. In: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci â23), 30 Apr - 01 May 2023, Evanston, TX, USA.

Alani, Harith, Burel, Gregoire and Farrell, Tracie ,(2022). Elon Musk could roll back social media moderation â just as weâre learning how it can stop misinformation. The Conversation.

Burel, GrÃ©goire, Farrell, Tracie and Alani, Harith ,(2021). Demographics and topics impact on the co-spread of COVID-19 misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter. Information Processing & Management, 58(6),

Burel, Gregoire, Farrell, Tracie, Mensio, Martino, Khare, Prashant and Alani, Harith ,(2020). Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo), 6-9 Oct 2020, Pisa, Italy.

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