The next department 4 seminar will take place on Tuesday, 9th May at 2pm in room C005.
Farah Benamara (Université Paul Sabatier – IRIT) will give a presentation entitled Stereotype detection and intention detection from texts.
Farah Benamara (https://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara/) is Associate Professor in computer science at Toulouse University Paul Sabatier since 2005. She is member of IRIT laboratory and co-head of the MELODI group (https://www.irit.fr/en/departement/dep-artificial-intelligence/melodi-team/). Her research concerns Natural Language Processing and focuses on the development of semantic and pragmatic models for language understanding with a particular attention on evaluative language processing, discourse processing and information extraction from texts. She published more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international conference and journal papers. She has been designed to be area chair at ACL 2019 and EACL 2021 and co-edited a special issue on contextual phenomena in evaluative language processing in the journal of Computation Linguistics. She is PI of several projects among which DesCartes at CNRA@CREATE Singapore on hybrid IA for NLP, Sterheotypes an EU project on the detection of racial stereotypes, QualityOnto an ANR-DFG project on fact-checking for knowledge graph validation and finally INTACT, a CNRS prematuration project on NLP-based crisis management from social media.
In this talk, I’ll provide an overview of my research activities, focusing in particular on two main topics: stereotype detection and intention detection from texts.
References.
– Tom Bourgeade, Patricia Chiril, Farah Benamara and Véronique MORICEAU. What Did You Learn To Hate? A Topic-Oriented Analysis of Generalization in Hate Speech Detection. EACL 2023
– Patricia Chiril, Farah Benamara, Véronique Moriceau: “Be nice to your wife! The restaurants are closed”: Can Gender Stereotype Detection Improve Sexism Classification? EMNLP (Findings) 2021: 2833-2844
– Enzo Laurenti, Nils Bourgon, Farah Benamara, Alda Mari, Véronique Moriceau and Camille Courgeon. Speech acts and Communicative Intentions for Urgency Detection. Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics *Sem2022
– Diego Kozlowski, Elisa Lannelongue, Frédéric Saudemont, Farah Benamara, Alda Mari, Véronique Moriceau, Abdelmoumene Boumadane: A three-level classification of French tweets in ecological crises. Inf. Process. Manag. 57(5): 102284 (2020)
