Real-time collection of tweets about the COVID-19 pandemic in highly affected Italy• Automatic geotagging of tweets and detection of showing faces in their visual content• Further analysis of tweets to detect trending topics, user communities, and events• An online platform that visualises the analysed tweets in multi-level aspects• An interactive map and a visual analytics dashboard to monitor the pandemic crisis

Conversational agents are reshaping our communication environment and have the potential to inform and persuade in new and effective ways. In this paper, we present the underlying technologies and the theoretical background behind a health-care platform dedicated to supporting medical stuff and individuals with movement disabilities and to providing advanced monitoring functionalities in hospital and home surroundings. The framework implements an intelligent combination of two research areas: (1) sensor- and camera-based monitoring to collect, analyse, and interpret people behaviour and (2) natural machine–human interaction through an apprehensive virtual assistant benefiting ailing patients. In addition, the framework serves as an important assistant to caregivers and clinical experts to obtain information about the patients in an intuitive manner. The proposed approach capitalises on latest breakthroughs in computer vision, sensor management, speech recognition, natural language processing, knowledge representation, dialogue management, semantic reasoning, and speech synthesis, combining medical expertise and patient history.

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Documents contain textual information, which is of the utmost importance for all the organizations. Document management systems have been used to store vast amounts of unstructured textual data described with minimal metadata, a method that has several limitations. In order to convert hidden knowledge into machine-readable data with rich connections, this paper presents work in progress on the development of the first end-to-end guided approach to construct a Knowledge Graph from Greek government documents from the Greek open government portal. The resulted Knowledge graph consists a proof-of-concept graph, that illustrates the beneficial semantic relationships between the textual data.