User:DavidLaniado

David Laniado
E-Mail:	david.laniado@gmail.com
Advisor:	MarcoColombetti
Research Areas:	Social Software and Semantic Web
Status:	active

PhD student in the area of Social Software and Semantic Web.

PhD thesis: Social production of knowledge by online communities

Work in progress

• Andreas Kaltenbrunner and David Laniado. There is No Deadline - Time Evolution of Wikipedia Discussions. Arxiv preprint arXiv:1204.3453, 2012.

• Pablo Aragon, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich. Biographical Social Networks on Wikipedia - A cross-cultural study of links that made history. Arxiv preprint arXiv:1204.3799, 2012.

• David Laniado, Carlos Castillo, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Mayo Fuster-Morell. Emotions and dialogue in a peer-production community: the case of Wikipedia. Submitted for review, 2012.

• Jessica J. Gould, David Laniado, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, Yana Volkovich, Pablo Aragon. Jointly they edit: Examining the impact of community identification on political interaction in Wikipedia. Abstract presented at International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNIA) Sunbelt Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, March 2012.

• Pablo Aragon, Karolin Kappler, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Jessica Gould, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich. Tweeting the Campaign: Evaluation of Political Party Strategies in Twitter for the 2011 Spanish National Elections. Abstract accepted at Internet, Politics, Policy 2012, Oxford, UK, September 2012.

• Pablo Aragón, Jessica Gould, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, David Laniado and Yana Volkovich. Real Counter Power or a Digital Bubble? A Case Study of the 15O-Movement. Abstract accepted at Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012.

Publications

• Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Salvatore Scellato, Yana Volkovich, David Laniado, Dave Currie, Erik J. Jutemar, Cecilia Mascolo (2012). Far from the eyes, close on the Web: impact of geographic distance on online social interactions. WOSN '12 - ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks, Helsinki, Finland. August 2012.

• Yana Volkovich, Salvatore Scellato, David Laniado, Cecilia Mascolo and Andreas Kaltenbrunner (2012). The length of bridge ties: structural and geographic properties of online social interactions. ICWSM '12 - 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Dublin, Ireland, June 2012.

• Pablo Aragón, Jessica Gould, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Karolin Kappler, David Laniado, Ricardo Ruiz de Querol, Carlos Ullod and Yana Volkovich (2012). Bridging the Gap: A Reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research. Web Science track, 21th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 2012.

• David Laniado, Riccardo Tasso, Yana Volkovich and Andreas Kaltenbrunner (2011). When the Wikipedians Talk: Network and Tree Structure of Wikipedia Discussion Pages. ICWSM '11 - 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

• David Laniado and Riccardo Tasso (2011). Co-authorship 2.0: Patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia. HT '11 - 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2011.

• Jacopo Farina, Riccardo Tasso and David Laniado (2011). Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macro-categories. HT '11 - 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2011.

• David Laniado and Peter Mika (2010). Making sense of Twitter. ISWC '10 - The 9th International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, November 2010.

• Alexandre Monnin, Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon and David Laniado (2010). Speech acts meet tagging : NiceTag ontology. I-SEMANTICS '10: 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Graz, Austria, September 2010.

• Alexandre Monnin, Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon and David Laniado (2010). L'ontologie NiceTag: les tags en tant que graphes nommés, Atelier Web Social, 10ième Conférence Internationale Francophone sur l'Extraction et la Gestion des Connaissances (EGC '10), Hammamet, Tunisia, 2010.

• Freddy Limpens, Alexandre Monnin, David Laniado and Fabien Gandon (2009). Nicetag ontology: tags as named graphs. ISNI '10: 1st International Workshop on Social Networks Interoperability, Shanghai, China, December 2009.

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti (2007). Using WordNet to turn a folksonomy into a hierarchy of concepts. SWAP '07: Semantic Web Application and Perspectives - Fourth Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Bari, Italy, December 2007.

• David Laniado and Davide Eynard and Marco Colombetti (2007). A semantic tool to support navigation in a folksonomy. HT '07: 18th conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Manchester, UK, September 2007.

Google Scholar profile

Tutored projects

• Social Network Analysis

  • Facebook Automatic List Suggestion
  • Friendship Recommendation System based on a Social Network Topological Analysis
  • Mining the Network of Coordination Interactions in Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia Social Network

• Semantic Tagging

  • Wikipedia Category Graph (Automatically assigning Wikipedia articles to macrocategories)
  • Wikipedia Category Map (Wikipedia Category Map)
  • Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia (Emergent Semantics in Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia Folksonomy (Studying Wikipedia as a Folksonomy)

• Semantic Annotations

  • Firefox Extension for Semantic Annotation

• Description Logics

  • OWLIE

• Semantic Search

  • Enriching search results with semantic metadata (Enriching search results with semantic metadata)
  • SeQuEx (SeQuEx - Semantic Query Expansion)

• Semantic Wikis

  • GeoOntology (Geographic Ontology for a semantic wiki)
  • SandboxIkeWiki (A sandbox ontology system for the semantic wiki IkeWiki)
  • BinaryTags (Binary tag system for the creation of relations in a semantic wiki)
  • Extending a wiki with semantic templates (Extending a wiki with semantic templates)

Other projects

• Using WordNet to support navigation in a folksonomy

• Etica hacker: l'imperativo è hands-on

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