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KMi is organising a series of biweekly seminars, given by internal and external speakers. Internal seminars are raising awareness about the research conducted in KMi and are fostering networking. External seminars are given by researchers from other institutions who are visiting KMi. The KMi seminars cover a wide range of topics, including Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Semantic Technologies, Citizen Science, and more.
KMi invites external speakers to present their work to the lab. We also welcome approaches from researchers who are interested to present their work. Please contact either the KMi staff member who is working in your field, or the seminars coordinators: Angelo Salatino, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Rachel Coignac-Smith, and Nancy Pontika.
The seminars take place at the KMi Podium (Berrill Building, 4th Floor North) unless otherwise stated. They are also broadcasted for online participants.
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Future Events
Understanding Misogynoir Online: Challenges in Identifying Intersectional Hate Speech
In today's digital age, where social networking sites serve as a nexus for diverse cultures and identities worldwide, we witness the dark side of this connectivity through the rise of hate speech. This form of digital aggression, targeting...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 11:30
Webcast date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
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GATEKEEPER: a walkthrough of digital health innovation in Europe, its shortcomings, and a way forward
The H2020 GATEKEEPER, October 2019 - December 2023, was one of the flagship projects sponsored by the European Commission tasked with shaping the European Health Data Space. Designed as a federation of eight national pilots, we developed the...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 11:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 May 2024
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Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews: Opportunities and Challenges
Numerous tools have been developed to assist and partially automate the Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) process. The increasing role of AI in this field shows great potential in providing more effective support for researchers, moving...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 11:30
Webcast date: Tuesday 21 May 2024
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Past Events
Designing Dialogic Human-AI interfaces to further Citizen Science practice.
What does it mean to engage in a dialogue with AI? How can Human-AI dialogic interactions transform our approach to scientific inquiry and collaboration? As AI becomes integral to scientific research and broader societal...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast date: Tuesday 16 April 2024
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Interactive Webcasts and eXtended Reality at the OU
Open University (OU) students undertake practical and practice-based learning activities in The OpenSTEM Labs through online access to remote equipment, interactive screen experiments, and live web broadcasts. I have been involved in...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast date: Wednesday 21 February 2024
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Persuasion across the Political Spectrum
In recent years, computational studies started analysing several aspects of News Media. The research community began developing models to extract and classify news articles in multiple dimensions: parallel news reports analysis, persuasion...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 January 2024
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What makes an effective response to aggression on social media?
Various authors (for example, Benesch et al. 2015, Ray et al. 2022) have attempted to define or describe what an "effective" response is to social media aggression, such as hate crime, cyberbullying, and online abuse. Some of these...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast date: Wednesday 10 January 2024
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AI-Driven Ontology extraction of Research Areas
Ontologies are essential tools for structuring and collecting human knowledge. They enable the identification and description of concepts concerning a specific topic. In the field of scientific research, ontologies enable efficient...
Organisation: University of Cagliari
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 December 2023
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Maven of the Month
We are also inviting top experts in AI and Knowledge Technologies to discuss major socio-technological topics with an audience that comprises both members of the Knowledge Media Institute, as well as the wider staff at The Open University. Differently from our seminar series, these events follow a Q&A format.
