STEM Faculty

Grégoire Burel

Research Fellow

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Latest news

ClimateSense team wins top places in two international misinformation challenges

02 Feb 2026

KMi researchers, working with colleagues at EURECOM, have secured first place in two major international competitions focused on online misinformation.…

Shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs: KMi…

12 Nov 2025

Last week, many researchers from around the globe gathered in Nara (Japan) for the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).…

Celebrating Ángel Pavón Pérez’s Success: A Milestone in Fair and…

31 Jan 2025

KMi is thrilled to announce that Ángel Pavón Pérez has successfully passed his viva on 28 January 2025. His groundbreaking…

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Latest publications

Displaying 10 of 31 publications

Alani, H. and Burel, G., 2026, ‘Resistance in the Wild: Reactions to Automated Corrections of False Claims on Platform X’, in 18th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 24-27 Aug 2026, Rabat, Morocco., https://oro.open.ac.uk/112063/.
Burel, G. and Alani, H., 2025, ‘ClimaFactsKG: Towards an Interlinked Knowledge Graph of Scientific Evidence to Fight Climate Misinformation’, in 5th International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery, and Assessment, 02 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan., https://oro.open.ac.uk/107352/.
Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R., Burel, G. and Alani, H., 2025, ‘Misinformation Detection in Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Tweets’, in Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation co-located with 17th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), Dec 17-20 2025., Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India.., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110692/.
Burel, G., Lisena, P., Daga, E., Troncy, R. and Alani, H., 2025, ‘ClimateSense at CheckThat! 2025: Combining Fine-tuned Large Language Models and Conventional Machine Learning Models for Subjectivity and Scientific Web Discourse Analysis: Notebook for the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2025’, in CLEF 2025, Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, In CheckThat! Lab, 09-12 Sep 2025, Madrid, Spain., https://oro.open.ac.uk/107353/.
Alani, H. and Burel, G., 2025, ‘New Frontiers in Fighting Misinformation’, arXiv, https://oro.open.ac.uk/102444/.
Burel, G., Mensio, M., Peskine, Y., Troncy, R., Papotti, P. and Alani, H., 2025, ‘CimpleKG: A Continuously Updated Knowledge Graph on Misinformation, Factors and Fact-Checks’, in ISWC 2024, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference, 11-15 Nov 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA., https://oro.open.ac.uk/101150/.
Altoe, F., Burel, G., Pinto, S. M. G., Alani, H. and Pinto, H. S., 2024, ‘Towards AI-mediated Meme Generation for Misinformation Correction Explanation’, in 1st Multimodal, Affective and Interactive eXplainable AI Workshop, MAI-XAI24 2024, 19 Oct 2024, Santiago de Compostela., https://oro.open.ac.uk/102051/.
Burel, G., Tavakoli, M. and Alani, H., 2024, ‘Exploring the impact of automated correction of misinformation in social media’, AI Magazine, 45(2), pp. 227–245., https://oro.open.ac.uk/97963/.
Burel, G. and Alani, H., 2023, ‘The Fact-Checking Observatory: Reporting the Co-Spread of Misinformation and Fact-checks on Social Media’, in The 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 4-8 Sep 2023, Rome, Italy., https://oro.open.ac.uk/92622/.
Mensio, M., Burel, G., Farrell, T. and Alani, H., 2023, ‘MisinfoMe: A Tool for Longitudinal Assessment of Twitter Accounts’ Sharing of Misinformation’, in UMAP '23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, 26-29 Jun 2023, Limassol Cyprus., https://oro.open.ac.uk/90632/.

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