Alumni Member
Martino Mensio (Alumni) 
PhD Research Student
Part of the Social Data Science group, I started my PhD at the Open University on 1st October 2019 under the supervision of Harith Alani and Alistair Willis.
In my PhD I want to explore how different articles present the same events, by using different emphasis and selecting different details and therefore providing a different framing.
In the past, I worked on the Co-Inform project with the objective of creating tools to identify the credibility of news sources and help to develop critical thinking.
Team: Harith Alani, Gregoire Burel, Tracie Farrell, Miriam Fernandez, , , Lara Piccolo, Paula Reyero Lobo, Ali Tavakoli
News
Publications
Burel, G., Mensio, M., Peskine, Y., Troncy, R., Papotti, P. and Alani, H. (2025). CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks. In: ISWC 2024, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, 11-15 Nov 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/101150/.
Mensio, M. (2024). Persuasion across the Political Spectrum: Quantifying Differences in Parallel News Reports. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/98145/.
Mensio, M., Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H. (2023). MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts’ Sharing of Misinformation. In: UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 26-29 Jun 2023, Limassol Cyprus. https://oro.open.ac.uk/90632/.
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. In: Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), 6-9 Jun 2022, Atlanta, Georgia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83210/.
Denaux, R., Mensio, M., Gomez-Perez, J.M. and Alani, H. (2021). Weaving a Semantic Web of Credibility Reviews for Explainable Misinformation Detection (Extended Abstract). In: Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 19-26 Aug 2021, Montreal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/78620/.
Piccolo, L., Blackwood, A.C., Farrell, T. and Mensio, M. (2021). Agents for Fighting Misinformation Spread on Twitter: Design Challenges. In: Conversational User Interfaces CUI 2021, 27-29 Jul 2021, Online. https://oro.open.ac.uk/78241/.
Burel, G., Farrell, T., Mensio, M., Khare, P. and Alani, H. (2020). Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-Checking Content during the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo), 6-9 Oct 2020, Pisa, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71786/.
Mensio, M. (2020). One event: different stories. Postgraduate Research Poster Competition, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/71340/.
Mensio, M., Alani, H. and Willis, A. (2020). Towards a Cross-article Narrative Comparison of News. In: Proceedings of the Text2Story’20 Workshop, 14 Apr 2020, Lisbon, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/69887/.
Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019). MisinfoMe: Who’s Interacting with Misinformation? In: 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019): Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Outrageous Ideas Tracks, 26-30 Oct 2019, Auckland, New Zeeland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/66341/.
Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019). News Source Credibility in the Eyes of Different Assessors. In: Proceedings of the Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2019, 4-5 Oct 2019, London, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/62771/.
Piccolo, L., Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019). Chasing the Chatbots: Directions for Interaction and Design Research. In: Conversations 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Chatbot Research, 26 Oct 2018, St Petersburg, Russia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/57382/.
