@deboranozza.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in MilaNLP group • Working in #NLP, #CSS and #Ethics • She/her • #ERCStG PERSONAE
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'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) finds NLP tools perform worse on lower-SES speech - higher perplexity, more ASR errors, dialect flagged as "wrong" by grammar checkers.
arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04445
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#MemoryModay #NLProc
Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" (Flor Miriam Plaza-Del-Arco, @deboranozza.bsky.social, et al. 2024) presented a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech online. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-t...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialWhat if AI systems weren’t chatbots? 💬
@elisabassignana.bsky.social sparked a lively discussion at our reading group with Ghosh et al.’s FAccT paper (2026).
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#TBT #NLProc
'Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender' by Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy (2022) discusses non-binary representation in tech and NLP's pronouns issue. aclanthology.org/2022.coling-...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome Maite Heredia to our lab! 👋
She will be visiting us for the upcoming months.
She works on developing resources and evaluating models for code-switching and non-standard language varieties.
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialFor last week's @milanlp.bsky.social seminar, we had the pleasure to host Hongyu Chen. She presented her upcoming EMNLP paper "Contrast Comes at a Cost: Prompting Large Language Models for Perception-Centered Gendered Style Transfer".
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#MemoryModay #NLProc
'Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022) explores descriptive and prescriptive data labeling paradigms.
aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-m...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#TBT #NLProc 'Data-Efficient Strategies for Expanding Hate Speech Detection into Under-Resourced Languages' funnels limited target-language data to fine-tune models & enhance effectiveness. By @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialFor today's reading group, @deboranozza.bsky.social presented "LLMs as Oracles: Reliance on LLMs for Subjective Personal Questions" by @myra.bsky.social et al. (2026)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14849
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#MemoryModay #NLProc
'SocioProbe: What, When, and Where Language Models Learn about Sociodemographics' - Lauscher et al. delve into language models' grasp of sociodemographics. Their findings? Models learn, but don't apply it.
aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social👋 We’re delighted to welcome @celianri.bsky.social, who’ll be visiting our lab over the next few months! Her research explores moderation practices on Reddit, combining social-graph signals with NLP to predict moderation outcomes. Great to have you with us, Célia!
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#TBT #NLProc
'Detecting Misogynous Memes with Text & Image Modalities' by Attanasio, @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi. Their novel system uses Perceiver IO, surpassing all previous benchmarks.
#AI #ScienceUpdate
aclanthology.org/2022.semeval...
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'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning.
arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07875
@martamarchiori.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialI spent the last few days in Ghent to celebrate @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social brilliant and socially relevant Marie Curie project, with amazing researchers @deboranozza.bsky.social Greta Damo and @elslefever.bsky.social, whom I deeply, truly admire Thanks @lt3-ugent.bsky.social for having us! 🇧🇪
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'Understanding Political Discourse on Twitter through Election Manifestos' Maurer et al. (2024) present a method for predicting party positioning from tweets aclanthology.org/2024.finding...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialWe're back with the reading group!
Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social#MemoryModay #NLProc Outstanding Paper at ACL 2024! @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. evaluate LLM values and opinions in 'Political Compass or Spinning Arrow?'
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
@milanlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.socialWe are back with #TBT
#NLProc Best Paper at NeurIPS D&B 2024: Hanna Rose Kirk,
@paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. introduce 'The PRISM Alignment Dataset'
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16019
@genderbiasnlp.bsky.socialReposted by @deboranozza.bsky.social📢 Deadline Extension!
The direct paper submission deadline for the 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP has been extended to September 7, 2026 (AoE).
Take advantage of the extra 5 days and send us your submissions: t.co/TLFxh5VaXm
@deboranozza.bsky.socialVery happy that #IC2S22027 will be in Milan at Università Bocconi!
I’m really looking forward to welcoming the computational social science community to my university and to Milan, and excited to be part of the team organizing it.
See you in 2027! 🇮🇹✨
