A selection, grouped by the questions the work answers rather than by year. The complete list — 85+ items — is on Google Scholar, DBLP, and ORCID 0000-0001-8068-5916. Where code or data is public, it is linked. If a paper is paywalled and you want it, just email me.
Section 01
Lexicons, transformers and explainable models for reading moral language at scale — and the question of whether a machine should.
Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics
Vjosa Preniqi, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
Scientific Reports 16, 19556 (2026)Open access
@article{preniqi2026evolution,
title = {Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics},
author = {Preniqi, Vjosa and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Saitis, Charalampos},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
volume = {16}, number = {1}, pages = {19556}, year = {2026},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-026-53778-9}
}MoralStrength: Exploiting a moral lexicon and embedding similarity for moral foundations prediction
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Knowledge-Based Systems 191, 105184 (2020)
@article{araque2020moralstrength,
title = {MoralStrength: Exploiting a moral lexicon and embedding similarity for moral foundations prediction},
author = {Araque, Oscar and Gatti, Lorenzo and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {Knowledge-Based Systems},
volume = {191}, pages = {105184}, year = {2020},
doi = {10.1016/j.knosys.2019.105184}
}Predicting demographics, moral foundations, and human values from digital behaviours
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiró, Matteo Delfino, Robert Raleigh, Ciro Cattuto
Computers in Human Behavior 92, 428–445 (2019)
@article{kalimeri2019predicting,
title = {Predicting demographics, moral foundations, and human values from digital behaviours},
author = {Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Beir{\'o}, Mariano G. and Delfino, Matteo and Raleigh, Robert and Cattuto, Ciro},
journal = {Computers in Human Behavior},
volume = {92}, pages = {428--445}, year = {2019},
doi = {10.1016/j.chb.2018.11.024}
}What does a text classifier learn about morality? An explainable method for cross-domain comparison of moral rhetoric
Enrico Liscio, Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti, Ionut Constantinescu, Catholijn M. Jonker, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah
ACL 2023 — 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational LinguisticsOpen access
@inproceedings{liscio2023what,
title = {What does a Text Classifier Learn about Morality? An Explainable Method for Cross-Domain Comparison of Moral Rhetoric},
author = {Liscio, Enrico and Araque, Oscar and Gatti, Lorenzo and Constantinescu, Ionut and Jonker, Catholijn M. and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.789}
}MoralBERT: A fine-tuned language model for capturing moral values in social discussions
Vjosa Preniqi, Iacopo Ghinassi, Julia Ive, Charalampos Saitis, Kyriaki Kalimeri
GoodIT 2024 — ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
@inproceedings{preniqi2024moralbert,
title = {MoralBERT: A Fine-Tuned Language Model for Capturing Moral Values in Social Discussions},
author = {Preniqi, Vjosa and Ghinassi, Iacopo and Ive, Julia and Saitis, Charalampos and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good},
year = {2024},
doi = {10.1145/3677525.3678694}
}Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio
Vjosa Preniqi, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Charalampos Saitis
PLOS ONE 18(11), e0294402 (2023)Open access
@article{preniqi2023soundscapes,
title = {Soundscapes of morality: Linking music preferences and moral values through lyrics and audio},
author = {Preniqi, Vjosa and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Saitis, Charalampos},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {18}, number = {11}, pages = {e0294402}, year = {2023},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0294402}
}Section 02
Measuring populations that official statistics never reached — and asking who gets left off the list.
Continental-scale assessment of spatial food market accessibility in Africa using open geospatial data
Robert Benassai-Dalmau, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Rossano Schifanella, Stefania Fiandrino, Daniela Paolotti, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Scientific Reports (2026)Open access
@article{benassaidalmau2026continental,
title = {Continental-scale assessment of spatial food market accessibility in Africa using open geospatial data},
author = {Benassai-Dalmau, Robert and Voukelatou, Vasiliki and Schifanella, Rossano and Fiandrino, Stefania and Paolotti, Daniela and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-026-59806-y}
}Global sub-national impact-based forecasting for tropical cyclones using open data: Combining machine learning and exposure-based approaches
Fiona Moss, Yelena Mejova, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Thomas Downing, Marc van den Homberg, Pauline Ndirangu, Leonardo Milano, Kyriaki Kalimeri
EGUsphere preprint (2026)Preprint
@article{moss2026global,
title = {Global Sub-national Impact-based Forecasting for Tropical Cyclones Using Open Data: Combining Machine Learning and Exposure-based Approaches},
author = {Moss, Fiona and Mejova, Yelena and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Downing, Thomas and van den Homberg, Marc and Ndirangu, Pauline and Milano, Leonardo and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {EGUsphere},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5194/egusphere-2026-1996}
}Fair geolocation extraction from humanitarian documents using large language models
Gianmarco Cafferata, Tiziano Demarco, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Mariano G. Beiró
WWW 2026 — Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 857–867
@inproceedings{cafferata2026fair,
title = {Fair Geolocation Extraction from Humanitarian Documents Using Large Language Models},
author = {Cafferata, Gianmarco and Demarco, Tiziano and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Mejova, Yelena and Beir{\'o}, Mariano G.},
booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026},
pages = {857--867}, year = {2026},
doi = {10.1145/3774905.3795457}
}Context-conditioned generative models enable subnational refinement of sparse humanitarian surveys
Federica Sibilla, Vasiliki Voukelatou, Duccio Piovani, Kyriacos Koupparis, Daniela Paolotti, Rossano Schifanella, Kyriaki Kalimeri
arXiv:2605.31489 (2026)Preprint
@article{sibilla2026context,
title = {Context-Conditioned Generative Models Enable Subnational Refinement of Sparse Humanitarian Surveys},
author = {Sibilla, Federica and Voukelatou, Vasiliki and Piovani, Duccio and Koupparis, Kyriacos and Paolotti, Daniela and Schifanella, Rossano and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.31489},
year = {2026}
}A large-language-model framework for automated humanitarian situation reporting
Ilaria Decostanzi, Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri
arXiv:2512.19475 (2025)Preprint
@article{decostanzi2025llm,
title = {A Large-Language-Model Framework for Automated Humanitarian Situation Reporting},
author = {Decostanzi, Ilaria and Mejova, Yelena and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.19475},
year = {2025}
}Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires
Timur Naushirvanov, Erick Elejalde, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Elisa Omodei, Márton Karsai, Leo Ferres
EPJ Data Science 14, 23 (2025)Open access
@article{naushirvanov2025evacuation,
title = {Evacuation patterns and socioeconomic stratification in the context of wildfires},
author = {Naushirvanov, Timur and Elejalde, Erick and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Omodei, Elisa and Karsai, M{\'a}rton and Ferres, Leo},
journal = {EPJ Data Science},
volume = {14}, number = {1}, pages = {23}, year = {2025},
doi = {10.1140/epjds/s13688-025-00540-2}
}Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones
Mersedeh Kooshki Forooshani, Marc van den Homberg, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Yelena Mejova, Leonardo Milano, Pauline Ndirangu, Daniela Paolotti, Aklilu Teklesadik, Monica L. Turner
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 24(1), 309–329 (2024)Open access
@article{kooshki2024towards,
title = {Towards a global impact-based forecasting model for tropical cyclones},
author = {Kooshki Forooshani, Mersedeh and van den Homberg, Marc and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Mejova, Yelena and Milano, Leonardo and Ndirangu, Pauline and Paolotti, Daniela and Teklesadik, Aklilu and Turner, Monica L.},
journal = {Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences},
volume = {24}, number = {1}, pages = {309--329}, year = {2024},
doi = {10.5194/nhess-24-309-2024}
}Leave no place behind: Improved geolocation in humanitarian documents
Enrico Belliardo, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova
GoodIT 2023 — ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social GoodBest Paper
@inproceedings{belliardo2023leave,
title = {Leave no Place Behind: Improved Geolocation in Humanitarian Documents},
author = {Belliardo, Enrico and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Mejova, Yelena},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Information Technology for Social Good},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1145/3582515.3609515}
}Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia
Danilo Sartirano, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Ciro Cattuto, Enrique Delamónica, Manuel Garcia-Herranz, Alessandro Sabini, Daniela Paolotti, Elisa Omodei
Frontiers in Big Data 6, 1054156 (2023)Open access
@article{sartirano2023strengths,
title = {Strengths and limitations of relative wealth indices derived from big data in Indonesia},
author = {Sartirano, Danilo and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Cattuto, Ciro and Delam{\'o}nica, Enrique and Garcia-Herranz, Manuel and Sabini, Alessandro and Paolotti, Daniela and Omodei, Elisa},
journal = {Frontiers in Big Data},
volume = {6}, pages = {1054156}, year = {2023},
doi = {10.3389/fdata.2023.1054156}
}Fairness in vulnerable attribute prediction on social media
Mariano G. Beiró, Kyriaki Kalimeri
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 36(6), 2194–2213 (2022)
@article{beiro2022fairness,
title = {Fairness in vulnerable attribute prediction on social media},
author = {Beir{\'o}, Mariano G. and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
journal = {Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery},
volume = {36}, number = {6}, pages = {2194--2213}, year = {2022},
doi = {10.1007/s10618-022-00855-y}
}Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiró, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina, Ciro Cattuto
Demographic Research 42, 133–148 (2020)Open access
@article{kalimeri2020traditional,
title = {Traditional versus Facebook-based surveys: Evaluation of biases in self-reported demographic and psychometric information},
author = {Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Beir{\'o}, Mariano G. and Bonanomi, Andrea and Rosina, Alessandro and Cattuto, Ciro},
journal = {Demographic Research},
volume = {42}, pages = {133--148}, year = {2020},
doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.5}
}Section 03
Why good public health interventions fail, and what moral conviction has to do with it.
Falling into the echo chamber: The Italian vaccination debate on Twitter
Alessandro Cossard, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Yelena Mejova, Daniela Paolotti, Michele Starnini
ICWSM 2020 — AAAI International Conference on Web and Social MediaOpen access
@inproceedings{cossard2020falling,
title = {Falling into the Echo Chamber: The Italian Vaccination Debate on Twitter},
author = {Cossard, Alessandro and De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Mejova, Yelena and Paolotti, Daniela and Starnini, Michele},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
volume = {14}, pages = {130--140}, year = {2020},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7285}
}COVID-19 on Facebook ads: Competing agendas around a public health crisis
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri
ACM COMPASS 2020 — Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
@inproceedings{mejova2020covid,
title = {COVID-19 on Facebook Ads: Competing Agendas around a Public Health Crisis},
author = {Mejova, Yelena and Kalimeri, Kyriaki},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies},
pages = {22--31}, year = {2020},
doi = {10.1145/3378393.3402241}
}Human values and attitudes towards vaccination in social media
Kyriaki Kalimeri, Mariano G. Beiró, Alessandra Urbinati, Andrea Bonanomi, Alessandro Rosina, Ciro Cattuto
WWW 2019 — Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference
@inproceedings{kalimeri2019human,
title = {Human Values and Attitudes towards Vaccination in Social Media},
author = {Kalimeri, Kyriaki and Beir{\'o}, Mariano G. and Urbinati, Alessandra and Bonanomi, Andrea and Rosina, Alessandro and Cattuto, Ciro},
booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference},
pages = {248--254}, year = {2019},
doi = {10.1145/3308560.3316489}
}Authority without care: Moral values behind the mask mandate response
Yelena Mejova, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
ICWSM 2023 — AAAI International Conference on Web and Social MediaOpen access
@inproceedings{mejova2023authority,
title = {Authority without Care: Moral Values behind the Mask Mandate Response},
author = {Mejova, Yelena and Kalimeri, Kyriaki and De Francisci Morales, Gianmarco},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
volume = {17}, pages = {614--625}, year = {2023},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22173}
}