Scholar
Dirk Hovy
Google Scholar ID: 7xluaTAAAAAJ
Bocconi University
Citations & Impact
Citations
10,232
H-index
46
i10-index
97
Publications
20
Co-authors
175
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Authored over 150 articles on these topics
- Recipient of 3 best paper awards and 1 outstanding paper award
- Published two textbooks on text processing in Python for social scientists
- Co-founded and organized workshops on computational social science and ethics in NLP
- Local organizer for EMNLP 2017 conference
Research Experience
- Former CS faculty at the University of Copenhagen
- Awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2020) for research on demographic bias in NLP
- Leads multiple research projects, including:
- - INDOMITA: Innovative Demographically-aware Hate Speech Detection in Online Media in Italian
- - MENTALISM: Measuring, Tracking, and Analyzing Inequality using Social Media
- - INTEGRATOR: Incorporating Demographic Factors into Natural Language Processing Models
- - MiMac: Mixed methods for analyzing political parties’ promises to voters during election campaigns
- - Twitter Healthy Conversations: Devising Metrics for Assessing Echo Chambers, Incivility, and Intolerance on Twitter
Background
- Full Professor in the Computing Sciences Department of Bocconi University, Milan
- Co-leads the MilaNLP lab with Debora Nozza
- Scientific Director of the Data and Marketing Insights research unit
- Research interests focus on the interaction between language, society, and machine learning
- Also interested in ethical issues of bias and algorithmic fairness in machine learning
