REVEAL Total cost: EUR 6 925 004 EU contribution: EUR 5 168 000 ICT-2013.1.6 - Connected and Social Media FP7-ICT: Revealing hidden concepts in social media (01/11/2013 - 31/10/2016) Group persona: http://persona.iit.demokritos.gr/ Dimitrios Vogiatzis, dimitrv@iit.demokritos.gr 23-Jan-2017: skel lab presentation
REVEAL site: http://revealproject.eu/ ”The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement #610928. The positions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”
Reveal: Social media verification Journalism scenario is: Difficult to separate truth from lies, propaganda from facts Without access to the region journalists rely on Social Media Enterprise network scenario TECHcommunity forum Software AG users, experts, developers, students, scientists share their knowledge Can we get the opinion makers Communities of users Important points of discussion Crawlers Twitter Facebook Blogs Analysis Structure Content Context Application Visualisation Storm for BigData
Structural Analysis User Roles: elitist, conversation initiator etc. Topic Sensitive Influence Match User Profiles Across Social Networks 1. Simple communities: users 2.Complex Communities: users, keywords, tags Predicting the future of a community: grow, shrink, disappear User Roles: elitist, conversation initiator etc. Topic tracking: across time
Content Based Analysis Extract relations & semantically group them Stylometry to infer: age, gender Find similarity user’s posts to the list he belongs to Detect disturbing image: Image forensics analysis: Detect modifications
Context Based Analysis Infer Trustworthiness of tweets (Event Calculus): influence of user, user talking about his favorite subjects Learn event calculus rules Geolocate Tweets: text analysis Source check bias: open linked data
Gamification To enhance user participation Users gain badges based on their activity 25 badges
Integration I/II Some of the challenges Synchronisation between modules Scaling-up Modules that require training Run-time errors not showing in individual module
PerSoNa Group: Dissemination: 2013-2016 16 publications: http://persona.iit.demokritos.gr/?q=publications Software: https://github.com/iit-Demokritos
REVEAL site: http://revealproject.eu/ ”The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement #610928. The positions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”