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Projects -- Publications Research Datasets People Education CV Press Blog Contact: arkaitz@zubiaga.org a.zubiaga@qmul.ac.uk Google Scholar LinkedIn Twitter DBLP Publons WiNLP I am a lecturer (assistant professor) at Queen Mary University of London . I lead the Social Data Science lab . My research revolves around Human Factors in Natural Language Processing, interdisciplinary research bridging Social Data Science and NLP . I'm particularly interested in linking online data with events in the real world, among others for tackling problematic issues on the Web and social media that can have a damaging effect on individuals or society at large, such as hate speech, misinformation, inequality, biases and other forms of online harm. Check out my research interests for more. I have published 100+ papers ( 30+ journal articles), which have been cited 2,900+ times (H-index = 31) . I serve as academic editor for Online Social Networks and Media , PeerJ Computer Science and Information and I'm an editorial board member for Information Processing & Management . I'm a regular (S)PC member for conferences including WWW, ICWSM, CHI, CSCW, ACL, EMNLP, IJCAI, AAAI,... (see CV for more). Upcoming events/CfPs: Submit by 31st October 2020: Information Special Issue “Tackling Misinformation Online” . Submit by 15th November 2020: OSNEM Special Issue on Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms . Submit by 4th December 2020: PUC Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Tackling Online Harms . Taking place at COLING 2020 (Dec 2020): We’ll be delivering a tutorial on ‘Detection and Resolution of Rumors and Misinformation with NLP’. News: October 2020: I will be serving as associate chair (AC) for CSCW 2021 . October 2020: Welcome to new PhD student Amani Abumansour! September 2020: Our EPSRC proposal "Learning from COVID-19: An AI-enabled evidence-driven framework for claim veracity assessment during pandemics" has been funded! September 2020: Welcome to new PhD students Xia Zeng and Peiling Yi! September 2020: New paper led by Shital Lathiya accepted in OSNEM! " Birds of a Feather Check Together: Leveraging Homophily for Sequential Rumour Detection " August 2020: New paper accepted at CIKM 2020: " Exploiting Class Labels to Boost Performance on Embedding-based Text Classification " July 2020: New paper accepted in ACM DTRAP: " Towards Automated Factchecking: Developing an Annotation Schema and Benchmark for Consistent Automated Claim Detection " July 2020: I'm now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy . July 2020: We will be guest editing a special issue on " Detecting, Understanding and Countering Online Harms " for the Online Social Networks and Media journal -- submit by 15th November. See older news...