Agostina Calabrese
(she/her)
About
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP (The University of Edinburgh), where I am working on cross-domain explainable abuse detection under the supervision of Björn Ross and Mirella Lapata. I am a member of the EdinburghNLP group based at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC).
I have worked as a Research Intern in the Computational Social Science team at Snap Inc. (Fall 2023) and in the Assistant AI team at Meta Reality Labs (Fall 2022).
Previously I was a Research Fellow at Sapienza NLP (Sapienza University of Rome), where I worked on multimodal systems for language-vision tasks, and at the development of BabelPic.
News
2024:
- I’m co-organising the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms! WOAH 9 will be at ACL 2025, and the special theme for this year is “Harms Beyond Hate Speech”.
- Our paper “Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster” has been accepted at ACL 2024!
- I’m co-organising the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) - co-located with NAACL 2024.
2023:
- We are organising the 2nd Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems - co-located with ICWSM 2023!
- Aug-Dec: I’m in LA working as a research intern at Snap Inc.!
2022:
- Our paper “Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling” has been accepted at TACL!
- Aug-Dec: I’m in the Seattle area working as a research intern at Meta AI!
- I am co-organising the 1st Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media: check out the call for papers!
2021:
- The AAA tool has been released!
Slack Workspace for Hate Speech Researchers
I created a Slack workspace open to researchers from any instituition (academia and industry) working on hate speech.
Interested in joining? Fill out this form.