Oktie Hassanzadeh (he/him)

I’m switching to Warpcast because of how much I dislike @elonmusk sorry, not sorry! warpcast.com/~/invite-page/…

Our paper "Knowledge Graphs in Pharmacovigilance: A Scoping Review" just published. It was a great pleasure to work with Dr. Manfred Hauben, Rutgers student Mazin Rafi, and my IBM colleague Ibrahim Abdelaziz on this scoping review. kg4drugsafety.github.io authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

If you enjoy Chinese food and you are working in tabular data, stop what you are doing* and start your submission to the TaDA workshop @VLDB2024, to be held in Guangzhou. New submission deadlines: tabular-data-analysis.github.io/tada2024/ *Unless you were already doing that; then don't stop.

📢Don't miss #SemTab 2024 - Round 1📢 New tracks, new datasets, and new challenges! sem-tab-challenge.github.io/2024/ We are waiting for your participation! @oktie @m_cremaschi @ejimenez_ruiz @vefthym @vcutrona9 @iswc_conf

📢We are ready to receive your full/short/abstract papers at the 2nd Workshop on Tabular Data Analysis, @VLDBconf 2024! CfP: tabular-data-analysis.github.io/tada2024/

Will you help us reach our son’s Kids Heart Challenge $200.00 fundraising goal 😍? Donate today! nclvm.com/1bg22

Let knowledge graphs be your guide through the maze of tabular data🌌 DAGOBAH is now open source! 🎊🎉🎊 Link: github.com/Orange-OpenSou… More info in our latest paper @TadaWorkshop @VLDBconf: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3462/TADA7… @Orange_Future @EURECOM @wikidata @TrlWorkshop #knowledgegraph

@JonHaidt @SuperKaish FYI

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences was released yesterday on “Social Media and Mental Health.” The report documents substantial harms to adolescents and young adults across many domains. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27396/… And yet, despite this documentation, the report claims that its own review “did not support the conclusion that social media causes changes in adolescent health at the population level” (p. 92). Also rather puzzling: despite documenting so many harms, the report recommends that we as a society do little in the way of a response, other than doing more research, educating children about how to use social media more safely, and requiring tech companies to be more transparent. Chapter 4 is the key chapter. It reviews hundreds of published studies. It lays out evidence of harm in sections describing each of these mechanisms: Social comparison Body Image, Body Satisfaction, and Disordered Eating Displacement (especially of sleep, and of time with friends) Attention and Learning Feelings of Sadness, Anxiety, Depression, and Stress Consequences of Exposure to Pornography (via social media) Sleep interference and reduction Internet Gaming Disorder Problematic Social Media Use It’s true that these problems don’t affect ALL adolescents, but according to the review each of them affect many, often more than 10%. What parent would expose their child to so many documented risks from any other consumer product? You can download chapter 4 (and the rest of the report) here: nap.nationalacademies.org/download/27396 There is a chapter on the potential benefits of social media (chapter 3), and the report tries to balance the costs and benefits of using social media, as it should. But the list of benefits confuses the benefits of SOCIAL MEDIA with the benefits of the INTERNET more broadly. For example, the report states that “When asked about the benefits of using social media, adolescents list connections and socializing, accessing information and learning, along with entertainment and fun, as some of the reasons for using social media” (p. 71). OK, sure, you can do those things with Instagram and TikTok. But suppose those platforms had never been invented, and teens could only use phone calls, texting, Facetime, Google, Wikipedia, blogs, podcasts, Netflix, and the rest of the internet. Do you think that their ability to socialize, find information, or be entertained would be substantially impaired? And even if you think 16 year olds would suffer from the loss of these platforms, do you think the same is true for 12 year olds? In The Anxious Generation, I show that adolescents would be LESS lonely if they did not spend so many hours of each day on social media. In fact, a recent study found that most college students said they would PREFER to live in a world with no TikTok or Instagram. They feel trapped. They have to use these platforms because…. everyone else is using them, and they would pay money to have everyone stop, which would allow them to stop: bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/resear… In other words: the platforms are a net burden on Gen Z, once you consider the negative externalities they impose on everyone else. The purported “benefits” of social media largely vanish once you see it as a collective action trap, and once you acknowledge the rest of the internet. On the other hand, the harms remain, compounding year after year as adolescents go through the rapid brain rewiring of puberty. Journalists: please read chapter 4 before you write about the NAS report. Parents: Please read chapter 4 and you’ll see why it is so important to delay the “phone-based childhood” for as long as possible. (I recommend giving only flip phones before high school, and delaying the opening of social media accounts until 16.) Teachers and school principals: Please read chapter 4 and you’ll see why it is so urgent that we get phones out of schools now. (I recommend using phone lockers or Yondr pouches.) Legislators: Please read chapter 4 and you’ll find plenty of empirical evidence to justify raising age limits, enforcing age verification, passing KOSA, and holding social media companies responsible for what their products and business models are doing to children.

Got a signed book today! @IBMResearch

Photos from the SemTab Challenge session @iswc_conf #iswc2023 3/3

Photos from the SemTab Challenge session @iswc_conf #iswc2023 2/3

SemTab 2023 Challenge at ISWC @iswc_conf #iswc2023 had AMAZING participants this year. Every single participant had some unique and super interesting ideas in their solution. Congratulations to all! @vefthym 1/3

It was wonderful to see the Ontology Matching community going strong for the 18th year at the OM-2023 Workshop at ISWC @iswc_conf #iswc2023 in Athens. Some photos from the workshop sessions 🧵

@nandanamihindu @iswc_conf Me too, love the community :) My contributions this year: - Co-organized the OM workshop - Co-organized the SemTab challenge - Presented at industry track session - Presented a demo - Presented a workshop paper - Reviewed for Research Track too much work though😅

ISWC is always my favorite conference - reviewed papers for research and resource tracks - coorganized a challenge - got 1 research, 1 resource, 2 industry, and 1 workshop papers accepted - most importantly made a lot of new friends and met good old friends #iswc2023 @iswc_conf

Oktie showing a demo of the work from IBM Research semantic automation team at ISWC 2023! @oktie @IBMResearch @IBMwatsonx @iswc_conf

Oktie presenting our work on semantic automation and conversational GUIs for discovering, enriching, connecting and augmenting data all without writing a single line of code. @oktie @IBMResearch #iswc2023 @iswc_conf