


Understanding and mitigating bias in AI automated systems
“The AI community has been focusing on developing fixes for harmful bias and discrimination, through so-called ‘debiasing algorithms’ that either try to fix data for known or expected biases, or constrain the outcomes of a given predictive model t



e-Symposium 2023: A methodology for Forecasting Election results from Tweets
Social networks as the virtual equivalent of the ancient agora have become a preeminent space of political discourse. They can nurture new political trends and reveal existing ones.



e-Symposium 2023: Political barometer: public opinion mining using tweets
Since the formulation of states, political authorities and political parties have sought to gauge public opinion. In recent years, opinion polls have been able to gratify this need rather efficiently.



e-Symposium 2023: Natural Language processing for political text analysis
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics with the goal of “understanding” human language.



e-Symposium 2023: Studying political communication with social media data: pitfalls, limits and opportunities
The advent of pervasive and connected digital technologies has profoundly affected both the way in which politicians interact with citizens and supporters and the way in which scholars study political communication.



e-Symposium 2023: Algorithmic auditing of political biases in recommender systems
External independent and unobtrusive algorithmic audits offer a fresh perspective for understanding AI-based algorithms used in social media and search engines.