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Research Interests: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in Social Media

  • Social media texts analysis
  • Disinformation detection: fake news and conspiracy theories
  • Hate speech detection: explicit and implicit
  • Misogyny and sexism detection
  • Stereotypes identification
  • Figurative language detection: irony, sarcasm and humour
  • Mental health disorders detection: depression and anorexia
  • Author profiling in social media
  • Stance detection

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    Ph.D. in Computer Science, Trinity College University of Dublin, Ireland, 1999.
    Decision Support in Speech and Language Therapy: Managing Phonologically Disordered Speech in Childhood.