News:

• 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 ‘25).
• 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 ‘25, 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