Alumni Member
Prashant Khare (Alumni) 
Research Associate
I am a PhD student at KMi, Open University working under the supervision of Dr. Harith Alani and Dr. Miriam Fernandez. My interests are around mining and understanding what the users talk about over the social media in the context of their interests, situations, and feedback etc. The focus is on building up tools utilising the various Information Retrieval techniques enveloped by NLP and Machine Learning techniques, and also exploring the scope of leveraging the semantic web in order to generate knowledge out of a data which is voluminous and unstructured in nature.
Keys: data science, social media analysis, information retrieval, machine learning, behaviour analysis
Team: Harith Alani, , Miriam Fernandez, Lara Piccolo, Hassan Saif
News
Publications
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/.
Khare, P. (2020). Identifying and Processing Crisis Information from Social Media. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/69594/.
Khare, P., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2019). Relevancy Identification Across Languages and Crisis Types. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 34(3), pp. 19–28. https://oro.open.ac.uk/61477/.
Khare, P., Burel, G., Maynard, D. and Alani, H. (2018). Cross-Lingual Classification of Crisis Data. In: 17th International Semantic Web Conference, 8-12 Oct 2018, Monterey, CA (USA). https://oro.open.ac.uk/57253/.
Khare, P., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2018). Classifying Crises-Information Relevancy with Semantics. In: Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2018, 3-7 Jun 2018, Heraklion, Crete. https://oro.open.ac.uk/54361/.
Khare, P., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017). Statistical Semantic Classification of Crisis Information. In: 1st workshop of Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics (HSSUES), 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017, 21-22 Oct 2017. https://oro.open.ac.uk/51181/.
