Alumni Member
Tom Dickinson (Alumni) 
P-time External PhD Research Student
I am currently a PhD student who's thesis title is "Telling Life Stories from Social Media Content".
The approach I am taking looks at identifying and categorising events from a persons social media data.
Given this data, we then look at how we might be able to rank events in terms of how memorable they are for a particular agent, as well as investigate ways we can seek to maximise recall for events by addressing things such as semantic memory, and ordering.
I am also attached to the ReelLives project which looks at doing something very similar. The goal of ReelLives is to create short documentaries that are automatically generated from a persons social media data, using things such as photos, videos and posts.
Keys: semantics,semantic web,reel lives,machine learning,nlp,java,event detection
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Dickinson, T.K. (2019). Detecting Personal Life Events from Social Media. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/68265/.
Fernandez, M., Dickinson, T. and Alani, H. (2017). An analysis of UK Policing Engagement via Social Media. In: Social Informatics (SocInfo2017), 13-15 Sep 2017, Oxford, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/51174/.
Saif, H., Dickinson, T., Kastler, L., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017). A Semantic Graph-Based Approach for Radicalisation Detection on Social Media. In: Proc. Int. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 28 May - 01 Jun 2017, Portorož, Slovenia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/49640/.
Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L.A., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2016). Identifying Important Life Events from Twitter Using Semantic and Syntactic Patterns. In: 15th International Conference WWW/Internet 2016, 28-30 Oct 2016, Mannheim, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/48679/.
Farrow, E., Dickinson, T. and Aylett, M.P. (2015). Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Using Sentiment, Themes, and Named Entities to Construct Stories. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015, 14-18 Sep 2015, Bamberg, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46130/.
Dickinson, T., Fernández, M., Thomas, L.A., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015). Identifying Prominent Life Events on Twitter. In: K-CAP 2015 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 6-10 Oct 2015, New York. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46129/.
Aylett, M.P., Farrow, E., Pschetz, L. and Dickinson, T. (2015). Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data: Triptychs. In: CHI 2015: 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 18-23 Apr 2015, Seoul, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/43900/.
Dickinson, T., Fernández, M., Thomas, L.A., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015). Automatic Identification of Personal Life Events in Twitter. In: ACM Web Science (WebSci '15), 28 Jun - 1 Jul 2015, Oxford, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/44295/.
