News:
- June 2025: New preprint on decoding extremist cryptolects!
- May 2025: Iām pleased to have had 4 papers accepted to ACL 2025, including
- my first solo-author paper on extremist in-group language,
- a large collaborative work on emotion recognition in 28 languages,
- a study on misinformation detection with emotional information, and
- a paper on Wikipedia Sockpuppetry detection with meta-learning (preprint soon).
- April 2025: The First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online at WebConf 2025 was a great success!
- Jan 2025: I have been awarded the Doreen Thomas Fellowship and the role of assistant professor / lecturer in the NLP group at UniMelb. I am recruiting PhD students!
- Dec 2024: I am co-organising the First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online at the Web Conference 2025 (Sydney, April ā25).
- Nov 2024: I was elected Secretary of EquiCL, the Broad Interest Group for Equity in ACL. Become a member!
- Oct 2024: I gave invited talks at the UniMelb CIS Seminar Series and the Complex Human Data Hub.
- Sept 2024: I am an organiser on the SemEval Task 11 2025 on Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection. Details here.
- Aug 2024: I am co-organising the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms at ACL 2025 (Aug ā25, Vienna).
- Jun 2024:
- I presented our work on predicting radicalisation at the Workshop for Online Abuse and Harms at NAACL 2024 in Mexico City.
- Our shared task SemEval 2024 Task 1: Semantic Textual Relatedness developed datasets in 14 languages and received 70 submissions. We received an honorable mention for the best paper award at SemEval 2024.
Supervision
PhD
- Gisela Vallejo (2021-): A Fair Plan Towards Mitigating Bias and Misinformation
- Jemima Kang (2024-): Using NLP to determine semantic drift in mental health discourse
Masters
- Luc Raszewski (2024): Detecting sockpuppetry on Wikipedia using meta-learning
- Archit Aggarwal (2023-2024): Investigating bias in the different language versions of Wikipedia