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Kyriaki Kalimeri
Researcher
Researcher
Fields Of StudyAI for Humanitarian Response, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computational Social Science, Fairness & Biases
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Kyriaki Kalimeri is a researcher at the ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, while previously she has been a research assistant at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Trento in 2013, while was a visiting Ph.D. at the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA. She holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in 2008. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science and engineering, and in particular on employing statistical machine learning and natural language processing for humanitarian response.
Publications
Towards a global machine learning based impact model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24, 1, 309–329 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
What does a text classifier learn about morality? An explainable method for cross-domain comparison of moral rhetoric
Enrico Liscio, Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Ionut Constantinescu, Catholijn Jonker, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics1, 14113–14132 (2023)
Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia
Daniele Sartirano, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ciro Cattuto, Enrique Delamónica, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Anthony Mockler, Daniela Paolotti, Rossano Schifanella
Frontiers in Big Data6, 1054156 (2023)
Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio
Vjosa Preniqi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
PLoS ONE18(11), e0294402 (2023)
Moral Narratives Around the Vaccination Debate on Facebook
Mariano Gastón Beiró, Jacopo D'Ignazi, Victoria Perez Bustos, María Florencia Prado, Kyriaki Kalimeri
WWW '23: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 4134–4141 (2023)
Monitoring Gender Gaps via LinkedIn Advertising Estimates: the case study of Italy
Margherita Bertè, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti
WebSci '23: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 229–238 (2023)
Leave no Place Behind: Improved Geolocation in Humanitarian Documents
Enrico Belliardo, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova
GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 31-39 (2023)
Global Misinformation Spillovers in the Vaccination Debate Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Multilingual Twitter Study
Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, André Panisson, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Tizzani, Michele Starnini
JMIR Infodemiology3:e44714, (2023)
From Ukraine to the World: Using LinkedIn Data to Monitor Professional Migration from Ukraine
Margherita Bertè, Daniela Paolotti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
GoodIT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 213–222 (2023)
Echo Chambers of Vaccination Hesitancy Discussion on Social Media during COVID-19 Pandemic
Yelena Mejova, Giuseppe Crupi, Jacopo Lenti, Michele Tizzani, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Daniela Paolotti, André Panisson
Proceedings: XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023224.3, (2023)
Authority without Care: Moral Values behind the Mask Mandate Response
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media17(1), 614-625 (2023)
LibertyMFD: A Lexicon to Assess the Moral Foundation of Liberty.
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
GoodIT '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good 154–160 (2022)
Fairness in vulnerable attribute prediction on social media
Mariano Gastón Beiró, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery36, 2194–2213 (2022)
The Language of Liberty: A preliminary study
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti
30th Web Conference, WWW 2021 (2021)
Modelling Moral Traits with Music Listening Preferences and Demographics
Vjosa Preniqi, Charalampos Saitis, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on CMMR (2021)
Detecting adherence to the recommended childhood vaccination schedule from user-generated content in a US parenting forum
Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Laetitia Gauvin, Lorenzo Betti, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
PLoS Computational Biology17(4): e1008919, (2021)
Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a Case Study
Daniela Paolotti, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ciro Cattuto, A. Bonanomi, A. Rosina, Alessandra Urbinati
Proceeding SocInfo 2020: Lecture Notes in Computer Science book seriesLNCS, Vol. 12467, 380-396 (2020)
Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ciro Cattuto, A. Bonanomi, A. Rosina, Mariano Gastón Beiró
Demographic Research42 (5), 133-148 (2020)
Sentiment and Moral Narratives during COVID-19
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti
ACL 2020 Workshop NLP-COVID (2020)
Human Values and Digital Patterns in Physical Exercise (Extended Abstract)
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 4735-4739 (2020)
Falling into the Echo Chamber: The Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter
Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Alessandro Cossard
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media14(1), 130-140 (2020)
Facebook Ads as a Demographic Tool to Measure the Urban-Rural Divide
Ingmar Weber, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Michele Tizzoni, Yelena Mejova, Daniele Rama
WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2020 327-338 (2020)
COVID-19 on Facebook Ads: Competing Agendas around a Public Health Crisis
COMPASS '20: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 22-31 (2020)
Cognitive and Affective Assessment of Navigation and Mobility Tasks for the Visually Impaired via Electroencephalography and Behavioral Signals
R. Lupu, O. Mitruț, A. Stan, F. Ungureanu, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Alin Moldoveanu
Sensors20(20), (2020)
Artificial Intelligence and Concerns About the Future: A Case Study in Norway
I. Tjostheim, Kyriaki Kalimeri
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 273-284 (2020)
Towards a global machine learning based impact model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards Earth System Sciences24, 1, 309–329 (2024)
Political context of the European vaccine debate on Twitter
Giordano Paoletti, Lorenzo Dall'Amico, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Jacopo Lenti, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini, Michele Tizzani
Scientific Reports 14, 4397 (2024)
What does a text classifier learn about morality? An explainable method for cross-domain comparison of moral rhetoric
Enrico Liscio, Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Ionut Constantinescu, Catholijn Jonker, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics1, 14113–14132 (2023)