Debora Nozza

Debora Nozza

Assistant Professor

Debora Nozza (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. 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 was recently awarded a €120,000 grant from Fondazione Cariplo for her project MONICA, which will focus on monitoring coverage, attitudes, and accessibility of Italian measures in response to COVID-19.

She was one of the organizers of the task on Automatic Misogyny Identification (AMI) at Evalita 2018 and Evalita 2020, and one of the organizers of the HatEval Task 5 at SemEval 2019 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