Alumni Member
Elizabeth Cano (Alumni) 
Research Associate
My research effort concentrates in the area of Social Computing, particularly in the analysis of social media based on the following topics:
- Data mining based on Bayesian modelling and NLP techniques
- Information retrieval methods based on semantic web technologies and graph-based algorithms
- Machine learning-based approaches
- Online algorithms
I'm particularly interested on the real-time analysis and detection of antisocial behaviour in social media. My previous work includes the development of methodologies for child-grooming detection in online chatrooms and the automatic detection of violence-related content in tweets.
I studied for a Ph.D. (2008-2012) under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Ciravegna at the University of Sheffield. My PhD thesis explored the application of semantic models and machine learning approaches for the mining of social media with a focus on entity profiling.
Currently I work on the MKSmart project at KMi, which focuses on the use of sensor data for Smart cities. Within this project I'm working on models that allows the combination of heterogeneous sensor-based data sources and social media for the creation of a so-called city observatory.
Keys: Social Computing, Machine Learning, Semantic Web
Team: Alessandro Adamou, Harith Alani, Emanuele Bastianelli, , Mathieu d'Aquin, Enrico Daga, Miriam Fernandez, Enrico Motta, Lara Piccolo, Hassan Saif, Keerthi Thomas
Projects
News
Cano, A.E., Saif, H., Alani, H. and Motta, E. (2016). Semantic Topic Compass – Classification Based on Unsupervised Feature Ambiguity Gradation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9678 pp. 350–367. https://oro.open.ac.uk/48479/.
Cano Basave, A., Osborne, F. and Salatino, A. (2016). Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors. In: 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016), 19-23 Nov 2016, Bologna, Italy (forthcoming). https://oro.open.ac.uk/47330/.
Cano Basave, A., Osborne, F. and Salatino, A. (2016). Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors. In: 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016), 19-23 Nov 2016, Bologna, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/47331/.
Cano Basave, A.E., He, Y., Liu, K. and Zhao, J. (2013). A weakly supervised Bayesian model for violence detection in social media. In: 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 14-18 Oct 2013, Nagoya, Japan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41416/.
Cano, A.E., Rizzo, G., Varga, A., Rowe, M., Stankovic, M. and Dadzie, A.S. (2014). Making sense of microposts: (#Microposts2014) named entity extraction & linking challenge. In: Making Sense of Microposts (#Microposts2014), 07 Apr 2014, Seoul, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41415/.
Varga, A., Cano Basave, A.E., Rowe, M., Ciravegna, F. and He, Y. (2014). Linked knowledge sources for topic classification of microposts: a semantic graph-based approach. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 26 pp. 36–57. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41414/.
Cano Basave, A.E., He, Y. and Xu, R. (2014). Automatic labelling of topic models learned from Twitter by summarisation. In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 22-27 Jun 2014, Baltimore, MD, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41413/.
Cano Basave, A., Mazumdar, S. and Ciravegna, F. (2014). Social influence analysis in microblogging platforms - a topic-sensitive based approach. Semantic Web, 5(5), pp. 357–403. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41412/.
Fernández, M., Wandhoefer, T., Allen, B., Cano Basave, A. and Alani, H. (2014). Using social media to inform policy making: to whom are we listening? In: European Conference on Social Media (ECSM 2014), 10-11 Jul 2014, Brighton, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41396/.
Cano Basave, A., Fernández, M. and Alani, H. (2014). Detecting child grooming behaviour patterns on social media. In: SociInfo 2014: The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics, 10-13 Nov 2014, Barcelona, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41394/.
Fernández, M., Cano, A. and Alani, H. (2014). Policing engagement via social media. In: City Labs Workshop - SociInfo 2014, 10-13 Nov 2014, Barcelona, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41393/.
Cano, A.E., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2014). Stretching the life of Twitter classifiers with time-stamped semantic graphs. In: 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 Oct 2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41402/.
Cano, A., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2014). The topics they are a-changing - characterising topics with time-stamped semantic graphs. In: 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 Oct 2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41404/.
He, Y., Lin, C. and Cano Basave, A. (2012). Online sentiment and topic dynamics tracking over the streaming data. In: 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012), 03-05 Sep 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://oro.open.ac.uk/34893/.
