Alumni Member
Hassan Saif (Alumni) 
Research Associate
Hassan Saif is a research associate at the Knowledge Media Institute. His research interests are in Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning and Social Semantics.
Hassan has recently had a PhD degree at the Open University on semantic sentiment analysis of microblogs. He has extensive expertise in social media analysis and data mining, and has published in top semantic web conferences and journals.
Along his career in KMI, Hassan has been involved in several EU projects including, ROBUST and SENSE4US, where he developed various novel techniques of using Semantics in Sentiment Analysis.
Previously to joining KMi, Hassan worked as a research assistant at the University of Lincon, UK and as research engineer for NordicSense, Finland.
Keys: Social Semantic, Semantic Computing, Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web
Team: Harith Alani, , Miriam Fernandez
News
Publications
Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan
Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland
Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., GaluÅ¡Äáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain
Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier
Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tech Reports
Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs
Techreport ID: kmi-12-02
Date: 2012
Author(s): Hassan Saif
