I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London. I lead the Social Data Science lab. My research revolves around Social Data Science, interdisciplinary research bridging Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. I'm particularly interested in linking online data with events in the real world, among others for tackling problematic issues on the Web and social media that can have a damaging effect on individuals or society at large, such as hate speech, misinformation, inequality, biases and other forms of online harm. Check out my research interests for more.
I have published 100+ papers (30+ journal articles), which have been cited 3,700+ times (H-index = 34). I serve as academic editor for 5 journals and I'm an editorial board member for Information Processing & Management. I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences including WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI,... (see CV for more).
News:
- August 2021: New paper with Ruben Sanchez-Corcuera accepted in IEEE Access: "Analysing the Existence of Organisation Specific Languages on Twitter"
- July 2021: Welcome to new PhD student Aida Halitaj!
- July 2021: Two papers accepted at ACM Hypertext:
- "Cross-lingual Capsule Network for Hate Speech Detection in Social Media" with Aiqi Jiang.
- "Weakly Supervised Cross-platform Teenager Detection with Adversarial BERT" with Peiling Yi.
- June 2021: I'm now an associate editor for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal.
- May 2021: New paper with Wenjie Yin accepted in PeerJ Computer Science: " Towards generalisable hate speech detection: a review on obstacles and solutions"
- May 2021: I'm now an academic editor for the Electronics journal.
- May 2021: We're organising a shared task on multilingual lexical normalisation: MultiLexNorm
- April 2021: Welcome to new PhD student Dina Pisarevskaya!