Prof Harith Alani
Professor of Web Science
Professor of Web Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, and leader of the Social Data Science group. Previously to joining KMi, I was a senior research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Published more than 150 scientific papers, and Co-ordinated several international projects. Check my homepage for further detail (http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/harith/)
Keywords
social data science, social media analysis, computational social science, online behaviour analysis, social informatics
Publications
Burel, Grégoire, 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.
Reyero Lobo, Paula, Daga, Enrico, Alani, Harith and Fernandez, Miriam ,(2024). Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics. In: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) â Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), 19-24 Oct 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Burel, Grégoire, Tavakoli, Mohammadali and Alani, Harith ,(2024). Exploring the impact of automated correction of misinformation in social media. AI Magazine, 45(2), pp. 227â245.
Reyero Lobo, Paula, Daga, Enrico, Alani, Harith and Fernandez, Miriam ,(2023). Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech. In: 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 20-22 Sep 2023, Leipzig, Germany.
Burel, Grégoire 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.
Pavón Pérez, Ãngel, Fernandez, Miriam, Al-Madfai, Hasan, Burel, Grégoire 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.
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.
Alani, Harith ,(2022). Have you been misinformed?: Computational tools and analysis of our interactions with false and corrective information. In: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022, 25-29 Apr 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon France.
