Debora Nozza

Debora Nozza

Assistant Professor

Debora Nozza (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. She was awarded a €1.5m ERC Starting Grant project 2023 for research on personalized and subjective approaches to Natural Language Processing. Previously, she was awarded a €120,000 grant from Fondazione Cariplo for her project MONICA, which focuses on monitoring coverage, attitudes, and accessibility of Italian measures in response to COVID-19. Her research interests mainly focus on Natural Language Processing, specifically on the detection and counter-acting of hate speech and algorithmic bias on Social Media data in multilingual context. She is also deeply interested in understanding how and why people use large language models (LLMs) in their everyday lives.

She is an organizer of the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) and Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP) at *ACL conferences. She was among the organizers of several shared tasks, including the first Homotransphobia Detection in Italian (HODI) at Evalita 2023, Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI) at Evalita 2018 and Evalita 2020, as well as HatEval Task 5 at SemEval 2019, which focused on multilingual detection of hate speech against immigrants and women in Twitter.

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Hate Speech
  • Ethics in NLP
  • Computational Social Science

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2018

    University of Milano Bicocca