Matthew Rowe
homepage:http://www.matthew-rowe.com/
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Description

I am a Lecturer in Social Computing at the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. My research interests centre around the Social Semantic Web and how information can be processed and interpreted by machines via formal semantics. In particular my work focuses on automated disambiguation methods using machine learning techniques, and assessing digital identity and user behaviour information that is provided by users and subsequently spread over the Web.

Before joining Lancaster I worked for two years (2010-2012) as a Research Assciate at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on the EU-Funded Integrated Project ROBUST. On the project I worked on semantic models of user behaviour, role mining and community health and behaviour change prediction methods. Before joining KMi I studied for a Ph.D. (2006-2010) under the supervision of Prof. Fabio Ciravegna at the University of Sheffield. My Ph.D. thesis explored automated identity disambiguation methods and how such methods could be supported using Social Data leveraged from Social Web platforms such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Prior to my Ph.D. studies I studied for a Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Sheffield (2002-2006). I am currently studying part time for a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics with the Open University.


Lectures:

tutorial
flag Social Semantics
as author at  2nd ESWC Summer School, Kalamaki 2012,
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flag Predicting Discussions on the Social Semantic Web
as author at  8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2011,
together with: Denny Vrandečić (introducer),
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lecture
flag Measuring the Topical Specificity of Online Communities
as author at  10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Montpellier 2013,
together with: Fabien Gandon (introducer),
2751 views
  tutorial
flag Representing semantic data
as author at  International Summer School on Semantic Computing (SSSC), Berkeley 2011,
3151 views
lecture
flag Moddeling and analysis of user behavior in online communities
as author at  Research Track,
2780 views
  lecture
flag Transferring Semantic Categories with Vertex Kernels: Recommendations with Semantic SVD++
as author at  13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Trentino 2014,
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