By Gaurav Pandey, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Host: Avishek Anand, Assistant Professor, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Host: Giulio Rossetti, Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa & KDD Lab, ISTI-CNR
The impetus for me to become a SoBigData fellow came to mind while I was monitoring the use of crowdsourcing for the Kenyan Presidential elections of 2017.
by Giulia Preti, dbTrento Group, University of Trento, Italy
In Ocotober 18 2018 Dino Pedreschi took part in the Policy Dialogue with European University Institute
on “EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS - CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES”
Marta Sabou, Information & Software Engineering Group, Technische Universität Wien
NLP APPROACHES TO RHETORIC AND RESONANCE IN BREXIT TWEETS
Yin Yin Lu, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
I arrived at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD this April armed with 26 million EU referendum tweets and an age-old question about rhetoric: What makes persuasive content work? In this age of limited attention, does content even matter?
After about eight years of algorithm design, software development and tuning, and large experimental tests I wish to share in this post the news about the public availability of a robust API offering some powerful entity-linking functionalities which are based on the tools we have published in the last few years: TagMe, WAT, SWAT and SMAPH.
All these tools can be now freely accessed via the EU SoBigData Infrastructure.
The description of each of the four tools is present in that page, I summarize here their main characteristics: