Member
Harith Alani 
Professor of Web Science
+44 (0)1908 659399
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/)
Keys: social data science, social media analysis, computational social science, online behaviour analysis, social informatics
Team: Moizzah Asif, Gregoire Burel, Tom Dickinson, , Miriam Fernandez, Prashant Khare, Martino Mensio, Lara Piccolo, Taha Tobaili
News
23 Apr 2019
15 Apr 2019
17 Dec 2018
22 Oct 2018
15 Oct 2018
Publications
Piccolo, L., Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019) Chasing the Chatbots: Directions for Interaction and Design Research, Conversations 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Chatbot Research, St Petersburg, Russia
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
Khare, P., Burel, G., Maynard, D. and Alani, H. (2018) Cross-Lingual Classification of Crisis Data, 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA (USA)
Cantador Gutierrez, I., E., C., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) What's going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting, 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18), Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM
Piccolo, L., Roberts, S., Iosif, A. and Alani, H. (2018) Designing Chatbots for Crises: A Case Study Contrasting Potential and Reality, British HCI Conference, Belfast
