Scholar
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco
Google Scholar ID: MMxrgvQAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,449
H-index
22
i10-index
32
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Papers published: NAACL 2025, EMNLP 2024. Awards: Best PhD thesis award by SEPLN; National Young Researcher in Computer Science Award by SCIE and BBVA Foundation; DETOXIS Shared Task Winner; EXIST Shared Task Winner; RAE Hackathon Winner; Twitter Thread Competition Winner; Best Introductory Research Work; Language Technology Hackathon Winner (MWC).
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University. Previously, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dirk Hovy's MilaNLP lab at Bocconi University. Co-organized several workshops and shared tasks, including The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms at ACL 2025 and the First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions at ICWSM 2025.
Education
- Obtained Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from SINAI lab at the University of Jaén (Spain) in January 2023, making significant contributions to hate speech detection and emotion identification, particularly in Spanish.
Background
- Main research interests focus on the interplay between language, computation, and society, primarily through the lens of emotions and harmful language. Passionate about using NLP for social good.
Miscellany
- Contact: f.m.plaza.del.arco[at]liacs.leidenuniv.nl
