Malvina Nissim

Professor of Computational Linguistics and Society at the University of Groningen.

Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)

Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

Past Events

  • Keynote at ESSLLI 2023: Plenary Evening Lecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2023
  • Keynote at KONVENS 2022 - Annual Meeting of the German Computational Linguistics Association, Potsdam, Germany, September 2022
  • Keynote at 8th Conf on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora, Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2021
  • Keynote at CILCC 2020: International Congress of Computational and Corpus Linguistics, Medellin (online), Colombia, October 2020.
  • Keynote at 53rd Congress of the Italian Linguistics Society (SLI), Como, Italy, September 2019.
  • Plenary Lecture at Summer school in Natural Language Processing (Python4NLP), Nancy, France, August 2019.
  • I was invited as keynote speaker at the 2018 International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT), Oslo, 13-14 December, 2018
  • I was invited as keynote speaker at the NL4AI Workshop, AI*IA, Trento, 20-23 November, 2018
  • I gave a seminar talk at ILCC, University of Edinburgh, November 16th, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
  • I was invited as plenary speaker at the "Conference on Corpus technologies. Digital Humanities and modern knowledge" (ConCorT), Moscow, 12-14 October, 2018
  • I was invited as plenary speaker at Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, Ljubljana, 20-21 September, 2018
  • I gave a talk at the CLiPS Colloquium in Antwerp on June 26th: "The blessing and the curse of lexical information in author profiling"
  • Training data for GxG is available on the website! GxG is the first shared task on cross-genre gender prediction for Italian, and will be organised at EVALITA 2018.
  • Short Paper on Cross-lingual Gender Prediction accepted at ACL 2018 in Melbourne! Joint work with Rob van der Goot, Barbara Plank, Nikola Ljubešić, and Ian Matroos.
  • On April 12th I gave a talk at the Education Festival of the University of Groningen. This video interview relates to the event:
  • I was awarded a Fellowship for Innovation of Teaching for 2018
  • PEOPLES 2018, the second workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Emotions, Opinions, and Personality on Social Media, will be co-located with NAACL 2018 in New Orleans, June 6
  • I was the General Chair of *SEM 2018, the Seventh Joint Conference of Lexical and Computational Semantics, co-located with NAACL in New Orleans, June 5-6 </ul> </div>

    Past Highlights

    Lecturer Year

    Lecturer of the Year

    I was elected as the 2016 Lecturer of the Year of the University of Groningen

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    TEDx Talk

    TEDx Talk

    I gave a TEDx Talk on Language, Humans, and AI, and how machines might challenge our stereotypical thinking

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    1st @PAN2017

    1st @PAN2017

    Our system won the international competition on Author Profiling (PAN 2017/2018) for two years in a row

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