Dr Miriam Fernandez is a Senior Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), Open University, and a member of KMi's Social Data Science Group. Before joining KMi, she was research associate at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain and software engineer (internship) at Google Zurich, Switzerland. Her research is at the intersection of the Web Science (WS) and Semantic Web communities (SW), where she has contributed with more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in various leading...

Keys: Semantic Web, Information Retrieval, Web Science, Data Analytics

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Fernandez, M., Bellogín, A. and Cantador, I. (2024) Analysing the Effect of Recommendation Algorithms on the Spread of Misinformation, Websci '24: 16th ACM Web Science Conference, Stuttgart, Germany

Bayer, V., Mulholland, P., Hlosta, M., Farrell, T., Herodotou, C. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Co‐creating an equality diversity and inclusion learning analytics dashboard for addressing awarding gaps in higher education, British Journal of Educational Technology, pp. (Early access)

Herodotou, C., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Fernandez, M., Andrews, H., Mulholland, P., Bayer, V., Maguire, C. and Lee, J. (2023) PVC-Challenges Response: A student facing dashboard for online undergraduate students

Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Annotators' Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir, ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Kusadasi, Turkey

Reyero Lobo, P., Kwarteng, J., Russo, M., Fahimi, M., Scott, K., Ferrara, A., Sen, I. and Fernandez, M. (2023) A Multidisciplinary Lens of Bias in Hate Speech, The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Kusadasi, Turkey

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech, 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Leipzig, Germany

Bonnin, G., Bayer, V., Fernandez, M., Herodotou, C., Hlosta, M. and Mulholland, P. (2023) CERSEI: Cognitive Effort Based Recommender System for Enhancing Inclusiveness, 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2023, Aveiro, Portugal

Pavon Perez, A., Fernandez, M., Al-Madfai, H., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis, WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, Austin, TX, USA

Kwarteng, J., Farrell, T., Third, A., Burel, G. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators' Perspectives, 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci ’23), Evanston, TX, USA

Reyero Lobo, P., Mensio, M., Pavon Perez, A., Bayer, V., Kwarteng, J., Fernandez, M., Daga, E. and Alani, H. (2022) Estimating Ground Truth in a Low-labelled Data Regime: A Study of Racism Detection in Spanish, Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), Atlanta, Georgia

Zubiaga, A., Vidgen, B., Fernandez, M. and Sastry, N. (2022) Editorial for Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms, Online Social Networks and Media, 27

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2022) Semantic Web technologies and bias in artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review, Semantic Web, pp. (Early access), IOS Press

Kwarteng, J., Perfumi, S., Farrell, T., Third, A. and Fernandez, M. (2022) Misogynoir: Challenges in Detecting Intersectional Hate, Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 12

Kwarteng, J., Perfumi, S., Farrell, T. and Fernandez, M. (2021) Misogynoir: Public Online Response Towards Self-Reported Misogynoir, The 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 21), Online

Bayer, V., Hlosta, M. and Fernandez, M. (2021) Learning Analytics and Fairness: Do Existing Algorithms Serve Everyone Equally?, AIED 2021; 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, ONLINE from Utrecht

Hlosta, M., Herodotou, C., Fernandez, M. and Bayer, V. (2021) Impact of Predictive Learning Analytics on Course Awarding Gap of Disadvantaged students in STEM, Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, Online / Utrecht, NL

Fernandez, M. and Bellogin, A. (2020) Recommender Systems and Misinformation: The Problem or the Solution?, OHARS Workshop. 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, [Online]

Cantador, I., E., C. and Fernandez, M. (2020) Exploiting Open Data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation Exploiting Open Data to analyze discussion and controversy in online citizen participation, 57

Farrell, T., Araque, O., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2020) On the use of Jargon and Word Embeddings to Explore Subculture within the Reddit's Manosphere, 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020, Southampton, UK

Khadka, A., Cantador, I. and Fernandez, M. (2020) Exploiting Citation Knowledge in Personalised Recommendation of Recent Scientific Publications, LREC 2020, 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseille

Ntoutsi, E., Fafalios, P., Gadiraju, U., Iosifidis, V., Nejdl, W., Vidal, M., Ruggieri, S., Turini, F., Papadopoulos, S., Krasanakis, E., Kompatsiaris, I., Kinder-Kurlanda, K., Wagner, C., Karimi, F., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Berendt, B., Kruegel, T., Heinze, C., Broelemann, K., Kasneci, G., Tiropanis, T. and Staab, S. (2020) Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems - An introductory survey Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems - An introductory survey

Khadka, A., Cantador, I. and Fernandez, M. (2020) Capturing and Exploiting Citation Knowledge for Recommending Recently Published Papers, Semantic technologies for smart information sharing and web collaboration Conference Track at 29th IEEE WETICE Conference, Basque Coast - Bayonne, France

Tobaili, T., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Sharafeddine, S., Hajj, H. and Glavas, G. (2019) SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi), RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria

Farrell, T., Fernandez, M., Novotny, J. and Alani, H. (2019) Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit, WebSci19, Boston

Fernandez, M., Gonzalez-Pardo, A. and Alani, H. (2019) Radicalisation Influence in Social Media Radicalisation Influence in Social Media, 6

Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2019) Artificial Intelligence and Online Extremism: Challenges and Opportunities Predictive Policing and Artificial Intelligence, eds. John L.M. McDaniel,Ken Pease, Taylor & Francis

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

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

Fernandez, M., Asif, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Understanding the Roots of Radicalisation on Twitter, In WebSci '18: 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Online Misinformation: Challenges and Future Directions, Web Conference 2018, Lyon, France, pp. 595-602, ACM

Fernandez, M., Piccolo, L., Maynard, D., Wippoo, M., Meili, C. and Alani, H. (2017) Pro-Environmental Campaigns via Social Media: Analysing Awareness and Behaviour Patterns, Journal of Web Science, 3, 1

Khare, P., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Statistical Semantic Classification of Crisis Information, Workshop: 1st workshop of Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics (HSSUES), 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017

Fernandez, M., Dickinson, T. and Alani, H. (2017) An analysis of UK Policing Engagement via Social Media, Social Informatics (SocInfo2017), Oxford, UK, 10539, pp. 289-304, Springer

Lastra-Díaz, J., García-Serrano, A., Batet, M., Fernandez, M. and Chirigati, F. (2017) HESML: A scalable ontology-based semantic similarity measures library with a set of reproducible experiments and a replication dataset, Information Systems, 66, pp. 97-118

Burel, G., Saif, H., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) On Semantics and Deep Learning for Event Detection in Crisis Situations, Workshop: Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep), at ESWC 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia

Saif, H., Fernandez, M., Kastler, L. and Alani, H. (2017) Sentiment Lexicon Adaptation with Context and Semantics for the Social Web, Semantic Web Journal, 8, 5, pp. 643-665

Piccolo, L., De Liddo, A., Burel, G., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Collective intelligence for promoting changes in behaviour: a case study on energy conservation, AI & Society, 33, 1, pp. 15-25

Saif, H., Dickinson, T., Kastler, L., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) A Semantic Graph-Based Approach for Radicalisation Detection on Social Media, Proc. Int. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Portorož, Slovenia, 10249, pp. 571-587, Springer

Saif, H., Fernandez, M., Rowe, M. and Alani, H. (2016) On the Role of Semantics for Detecting pro-ISIS Stances on Social Media, ISWC 2016, Kobe, Japan, 1690

Scharl, A., Föls, M., Piccolo, L., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2016) Application Design and Engagement Strategy of a Game with a Purpose for Climate Change Awareness, International Conference on Internet Science. INSCI 2016, Florence, Italy, 9934, pp. 97-104, Springer, Cham

Saif, H., Ortega, J., Fernandez, M. and Cantador Gutierrez, I. (2016) Sentiment Analysis in Social Streams Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services, eds. Springer

Fernandez, M., Piccolo, L., Maynard, D., Wippoo, M., Meili, C. and Alani, H. (2016) Talking Climate Change via Social Media: Communication, Engagement and Behaviour, Web Science Conference (WebSci), Hannover, Germany, pp. 85-94, ACM

Piccolo, L., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Scharl, A., Föls, M. and Herring, D. (2016) Climate Change Engagement: Results of a Multi-Task Game with a Purpose, Workshop: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Cologne, Germany, pp. 191-194, AAAI Publications

Saif, H., He, Y., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2016) Contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of Twitter, Information Processing and Management, 52, 1, pp. 5-19

Saif, H., Bashevoy, M., Taylor, S., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2016) SentiCircles: A Platform for Contextual and Conceptual Sentiment Analysis, ESWC2016: European Semantic Web Conference, Anissaras, Crete, Greece

Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2016) Identifying Important Life Events from Twitter Using Semantic and Syntactic Patterns, 15th International Conference WWW/Internet 2016, Mannheim, Germany, pp. 143-150, IADIS Press

Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2016) Detecting Important Life Events on Twitter Using Frequent Semantic and Syntactic Subgraphs, IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, 14, 2, pp. 23-37

Saif, H., Fernandez, M., Kastler, L. and Alani, H. (2016) A Linked Open Data Approach for Sentiment Lexicon Adaptation, Workshop: The 4th International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction, ISWC Conference

Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015) Identifying Prominent Life Events on Twitter, K-CAP 2015 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, New York, ACM

Taylor, S. and Fernandez, M. (2015) An Information Acquisition and Analysis Toolkit for Policy Makers in Governmental and Legislative Institutions, eChallengues 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania

Fernandez, M., , g., Alani, H., Meili, L. and Hess, R. (2015) Analysing engagement towards the 2014 Earth Hour Campaign in Twitter, EnviroInfo &ICT4S 2015: Building the Knowledge Base for Environmental Action and Sustainability, Copenhagen, Denmark

, Fernandez, M., Joshi, S., Larsson, A., Ibrahim, O., Taylor, S., Bashevoy, M. and Sanchez Nunez, P. (2015) Policy Making in a Complex World: The Opportunities and Risks Presented by New Technologies, 2nd European TA Conference, Berlin, Germany

Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015) Automatic Identification of Personal Life Events in Twitter, ACM Web Science (WebSci '15), Oxford, UK

Fernandez, M., Burel, G., Alani, H., Piccolo, L., Meili, C. and Hess, R. (2015) Analysing engagement towards the 2014 Earth Hour Campaign in Twitter, EnviroInfo &ICT4S 2015: Building the Knowledge Base for Environmental Action and Sustainability, Copenhagen, Denmark (Forthcoming)

Dickinson, T., Fernandez, M., Thomas, L., Mulholland, P., Briggs, P. and Alani, H. (2015) Identifying Prominent Life Events on Twitter, 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, New York, America