Hi, I'm Elisa!
I work in the field of Natural Language Processing as a member of the NLP north research unit at the IT University of Copenhagen and as an affiliated member of the Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence, Denmark. My research lays at the intersection between NLP and Computational Social Science. Specifically, I'm interested in analyzing social phenomena through the lens of language, by using NLP technologies. Currently, I just started my 3-year postdoc and I'm still defining the exact direction of my project. I work under the mentorship of Dr. Rob van der Goot (ITU) and Prof. Dr. Dirk Hovy (MilaNLP, Bocconi University).
Previously, I completed my PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen and as an affiliated member of the MaiNLP research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) in Munich (LMU) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank and Dr. Rob van der Goot. The focus of my PhD project was developing computation systems for Information Extraction with strong abilities to generalize over unseen data sources and label spaces. Specifically, I worked on cross-domain Relation Extraction. Before that, I worked in the field of computational social science (hate speech and personality detection).