I hold the position of Director at the Knowledge Media Institute, where I have founded and currently lead the interdisciplinary Social Data Science group. Our cutting-edge research is dedicated to the field of computational social science, utilising advanced methodologies to create models, gain insights, and track various social phenomena in the digital landscape. This research draws upon the collective expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web Technologies, and Social Computing,...

Keys: social data science, social media analysis, computational social science, online behaviour analysis, social informatics

Alani, H. and Burel, G. (2025) New Frontiers in Fighting Misinformation, arXiv, arXiv

Burel, G., Mensio, M., Peskine, Y., Troncy, R., Papotti, P. and Alani, H. (2024) CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks, ISWC 2024, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Burel, G., Tavakoli, M. and Alani, H. (2024) Exploring the impact of automated correction of misinformation in social media, AI Magazine, pp. (early access)

Altoe, F., Burel, G., Pinto, S., Alani, H. and Pinto, H. (2024) Towards AI-mediated Meme Generation for Misinformation Correction Explanation, 1st Multimodal, Affective and Interactive eXplainable AI Workshop, MAI-XAI24 2024, Santiago de Compostela

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2023) Knowledge-Grounded Target Group Language Recognition in Hate Speech, 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Leipzig, Germany

Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media, HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Rome, Italy

Mensio, M., Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H. (2023) MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts' Sharing of Misinformation, UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, Limassol Cyprus

Pavon Perez, A., Fernandez, M., Al-Madfai, H., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2023) Tracking Machine Learning Bias Creep in Traditional and Online Lending Systems with Covariance Analysis, WebSci '23: 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, Austin, TX, USA

Tavakoli, A., Alani, H. and Burel, G. (2023) On the Readability of Misinformation in Comparison to the Truth, Text2Story 2023, Ireland

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E. and Alani, H. (2022) Supporting Online Toxicity Detection with Knowledge Graphs, Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Atlanta, Georgia

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, Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), Atlanta, Georgia

Farrell, T., Alani, H. and Mikroyannidis, A. (2022) Mediating learning with learning analytics technology: guidelines for practice, Teaching in Higher Education, pp. 1-21

Alani, H., Burel, G. and Farrell, T. (2022) Elon Musk could roll back social media moderation - just as we're learning how it can stop misinformation

Alani, H. (2022) Have you been misinformed?: Computational tools and analysis of our interactions with false and corrective information, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon France

Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2022) Semantic Web technologies and bias in artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review, Semantic Web, pp. (Early access), IOS Press

Denaux, R., Mensio, M., Gomez-Perez, J. and Alani, H. (2021) Weaving a Semantic Web of Credibility Reviews for Explainable Misinformation Detection (Extended Abstract), Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal

Piccolo, L., Troullinou, P. and Alani, H. (2021) Chatbots to Support Children in Coping with Online Threats: Socio-technical Requirements, Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021, Virtual Event

Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H. (2021) Demographics and topics impact on the co-spread of COVID-19 misinformation and fact-checks on Twitter

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, Proceedings of the 12th International Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo), Pisa, Italy

Farrell, T., Araque, O., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2020) On the use of Jargon and Word Embeddings to Explore Subculture within the Reddit's Manosphere, 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020, Southampton, UK

Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2020) Towards a Cross-article Narrative Comparison of News, Workshop: Text2Story'20 at 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Lisbon, Portugal

Ntoutsi, E., Fafalios, P., Gadiraju, U., Iosifidis, V., Nejdl, W., Vidal, M., Ruggieri, S., Turini, F., Papadopoulos, S., Krasanakis, E., Kompatsiaris, I., Kinder-Kurlanda, K., Wagner, C., Karimi, F., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Berendt, B., Kruegel, T., Heinze, C., Broelemann, K., Kasneci, G., Tiropanis, T. and Staab, S. (2020) Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems - An introductory survey Bias in data-driven artificial intelligence systems - An introductory survey

Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019) MisinfoMe: Who's Interacting with Misinformation?, Demo at 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019): Posters & Demonstrations, Industry and Outrageous Ideas Tracks, Auckland, New Zeeland, CEUR

Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019) News Source Credibility in the Eyes of Different Assessors, Conference for Truth and Trust Online, London, UK

Tobaili, T., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Sharafeddine, S., Hajj, H. and Glavas, G. (2019) SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi), RANLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria

Khare, P., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2019) Relevancy Identification Across Languages and Crisis Types Relevancy Identification Across Languages and Crisis Types, 34, pp. 19-28

Piccolo, L., Mensio, M. and Alani, H. (2019) Chasing the Chatbots: Directions for Interaction and Design Research, Conversations 2018: 2nd International Workshop on Chatbot Research, St Petersburg, Russia

Farrell, T., Fernandez, M., Novotny, J. and Alani, H. (2019) Exploring Misogyny across the Manosphere in Reddit, WebSci19, Boston

Fernandez, M., Gonzalez-Pardo, A. and Alani, H. (2019) Radicalisation Influence in Social Media Radicalisation Influence in Social Media, 6

Farrell, T., Piccolo, L., Perfumi, S. and Alani, H. (2019) Understanding the Role of Human Values in the Spread of Misinformation, Truth and Trust Online, London, UK

Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2019) Artificial Intelligence and Online Extremism: Challenges and Opportunities Predictive Policing and Artificial Intelligence, eds. John L.M. McDaniel,Ken Pease, Taylor & Francis

Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Contextual Semantics for Radicalisation Detection on Twitter, Workshop: Semantic Web for Social Good Workshop (SW4SG) at International Semantic Web Conference 2018, CEUR

Khare, P., Burel, G., Maynard, D. and Alani, H. (2018) Cross-Lingual Classification of Crisis Data, 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA (USA)

Cantador Gutierrez, I., E., C., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) What's going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting, 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18), Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM

Piccolo, L., Roberts, S., Iosif, A. and Alani, H. (2018) Designing Chatbots for Crises: A Case Study Contrasting Potential and Reality, British HCI Conference, Belfast

Khare, P., Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2018) Classifying Crises-Information Relevancy with Semantics, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2018, Heraklion, Crete

Fernandez, M., Asif, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Understanding the Roots of Radicalisation on Twitter, In WebSci '18: 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Burel, G. and Alani, H. (2018) Crisis Event Extraction Service (CREES) - Automatic Detection and Classification of Crisis-related Content on Social Media, 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Rochester, NY, USA

Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2018) Online Misinformation: Challenges and Future Directions, Web Conference 2018, Lyon, France, pp. 595-602, ACM

Fernandez, M., Piccolo, L., Maynard, D., Wippoo, M., Meili, C. and Alani, H. (2017) Pro-Environmental Campaigns via Social Media: Analysing Awareness and Behaviour Patterns, Journal of Web Science, 3, 1

Burel, G., Saif, H. and Alani, H. (2017) Semantic Wide and Deep Learning for Detecting Crisis-Information Categories on Social Media, 16th International Semantic Web Conference, Vienna, Austria

Khare, P., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Statistical Semantic Classification of Crisis Information, Workshop: 1st workshop of Hybrid Statistical Semantic Understanding and Emerging Semantics (HSSUES), 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2017

Fernandez, M., Dickinson, T. and Alani, H. (2017) An analysis of UK Policing Engagement via Social Media, Social Informatics (SocInfo2017), Oxford, UK, 10539, pp. 289-304, Springer

Farrell, T., Mikroyannidis, A. and Alani, H. (2017) 'We're Seeking Relevance': Qualitative Perspectives on the Impact of Learning Analytics on Teaching and Learning, 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL), Tallinn, Estonia, Springer LNCS

Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2017) Prospecting Socially-Aware Concepts and Artefacts for Designing for Community Resilience, Workshop: Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis at 8th conference on Community & Technologies, Troyes, France

Burel, G., Piccolo, L., Meesters, K. and Alani, H. (2017) DoRES — A Three-tier Ontology for Modelling Crises in the Digital Age, 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (ISCRAM), Albi, Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée, France

Burel, G., Saif, H., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) On Semantics and Deep Learning for Event Detection in Crisis Situations, Workshop: Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep), at ESWC 2017, Portoroz, Slovenia

Saif, H., Fernandez, M., Kastler, L. and Alani, H. (2017) Sentiment Lexicon Adaptation with Context and Semantics for the Social Web, Semantic Web Journal, 8, 5, pp. 643-665

Piccolo, L., De Liddo, A., Burel, G., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) Collective intelligence for promoting changes in behaviour: a case study on energy conservation, AI & Society, 33, 1, pp. 15-25

Saif, H., Dickinson, T., Kastler, L., Fernandez, M. and Alani, H. (2017) A Semantic Graph-Based Approach for Radicalisation Detection on Social Media, Proc. Int. Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Portorož, Slovenia, 10249, pp. 571-587, Springer

Saif, H., Fernandez, M., Rowe, M. and Alani, H. (2016) On the Role of Semantics for Detecting pro-ISIS Stances on Social Media, ISWC 2016, Kobe, Japan, 1690

Burel, G., Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2016) EnergyUse - A Collective Semantic Platform for Monitoring and Discussing Energy Consumption, 15th International Semantic Web Conference - ISWC, Kobe, Japan, pp. 257-272

Piccolo, L. and Alani, H. (2016) Strategies and Tools to Raise Energy Awareness Collectively, Behave 2016 - 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 12