Sense4Us

tools and techniques to enable policy makers to gather, integrate, and analyse policy-related discussions

The objective of the EU FP7 Sense4us project is to advance policy modelling and simulation, data analytics and social network discussion dynamics, providing economic and social benefits at all governmental levels across Europe. The project will provide tools enabling policy makers to find and select relevant information; link and homogenise the data; model policy in terms of constraints and intent; validate the policy; discover and incorporate views from NGOs and public; predict social...

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

Cano, A., Saif, H., Alani, H. and Motta, E. (2016) Semantic Topic Compass--Classification Based on Unsupervised Feature Ambiguity Gradation, 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Crete, Greece

Rowe, M. and Saif, H. (2016) Mining pro-ISIS radicalisation signals from social media users, The 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media

Uren, V., Wright, D., Scott, J., He, Y. and Saif, H. (2016) Social media and sentiment in bioenergy consultation, International journal of energy sector management

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

Cano, E., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2014) Stretching the Life of Twitter Classifiers with Time-Stamped Semantic Graphs, 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC14), Riva del Garda, Trentino Italy

Cano, E., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2014) The Topics they are a-Changing - Characterising Topics with Time-Stamped Semantic Graphs, Poster at 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC14), Riva del Garda, Trentino Italy

Fernandez, M., Wandhoefer, T., Allen, B., Basave, A. and Alani, H. (2014) Using social media to inform policy making: to whom are we listening?, European Conference on Social Media (ECSM 2014), Brighton, UK

Cano, E., He, Y. and Xu, R. (2014) Automatic Labelling of Topic Models Learned from Twitter by Summarisation, The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, USA

Saif, H., He, Y., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2014) Adapting sentiment lexicons using contextual semantics for sentiment analysis of Twitter, Workshop: Workshop 5: SemanticSentimentAnalysis2014: Semantic Web and Sentiment Analysis, Crete, Greece, 8798, pp. 54-63, Springer International Publishing