I'm an assistant professor at the University of Warwick. My research revolves around Human Factors in Natural Language Processing, which involves interdisciplinary research in NLP and HCI, furthering understanding and methods for NLP with awareness of how people interact with information as well as with one another. I do research in two main directions: (1) leveraging online data (social media, web, open data) to model, track and understand real world phenomena, and (2) furthering NLP approaches to mitigate the vulnerabilities of the Web and social media, such as hate speech, misinformation and inequality. My work involves research in natural language processing, social media mining and computer-supported cooperative work, amplified by an interdisciplinary perspective involving social sciences such as journalism, sociology and psychology. I've published over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 25+ journal publications. According to Google Scholar, my research has been cited over 1,100 times, with an H-index of 21 (as of July 2018).

I'm currently the module organiser for CS918 Natural Language Processing, and module co-organiser for CS909 Data Mining at Warwick. I'm also teaching social media mining (in Spanish) as an external collaborator at UNED's online MSc course in Human Language Technologies.

I'm open to collaboration, do drop me a line if you're interested in discussing.

News

• July 2018: Our introductory article to the IP&M Special Issue on 'Processing social media in real-time' is now online -- the special issue is in preparation.
• May 2018: Paper on Multi-task Learning for Rumour Verification, led by Elena Kochkina, has been accepted for publication in COLING 2018.
• May 2018: We will be running a new edition of the RumourEval shared task at SemEval 2019! More details will be announced soon.
• April 2018: We will be running the 2nd workshop on Rumors and Deception in Social Media (RDSM) at CIKM 2018 -- CfP.
• February 2018: New paper assessing the persistence of Twitter datasets has been accepted for publication in JASIST.
• January 2018: I'm taking up a new role as assistant professor at the University of Warwick, where I'll be teaching Natural Language Processing and Data Mining.
• December 2017: Our paper studying independence movements through social media has been accepted for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems.
• November 2017: Our paper on discourse-aware rumour stance classification has been accepted for publication in Information Processing & Management.
• November 2017: I'm co-guest editing a special issue for the Online Information Review Journal on Social Media Mining for Journalism. Deadline is 28th February, 2018!
• November 2017: Our survey paper Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey has been accepted for publication in ACM Computing Surveys.