I'm an assistant professor at the University of Warwick. My research revolves around Human Factors in Natural Language Processing, interdisciplinary research bridging NLP and Social Computing, where the analysis of text and conversations online is informed by how people interact with information as well as with one another. Examples include leveraging online data (social media, web, open data) to model, track and understand real world phenomena, and furthering approaches to mitigate the vulnerabilities of the Web and social media, such as hate speech, misinformation and inequality.
Research interests: natural language processing, social media mining, computer-supported cooperative work, computational social science, computational journalism.
Research: I've published over 80 peer-reviewed publications, including 25+ journal publications. My research has been cited over 1,300 times (H-index = 22). I'm an editorial board member of the IP&M journal and a regular reviewer for top conferences and journals in NLP (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP), HCI (CHI, CSCW, IUI) and web science (WWW, Hypertext, ICWSM, WebSci).
Teaching: Module organiser for CS918 Natural Language Processing (2017/18 and 2018/19) and module co-organiser for CS909 Data Mining (2017/18) 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.
News
- December 2018: Paper studying the public perception on the opportunities and challenges of the Internet of Things has been accepted for publication in PLOS ONE.
- November 2018: Paper on Using Gaussian Processes for Rumour Stance Classification in Social Media, led by Michal Lukasik, has been accepted for publication in ACM TOIS.
- September 2018: I'm joining the editorial board of the Information Processing & Management journal.
- 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!