NLP

Paper presented at ICWSM 2026 in the Toxic Counterpublics session. The study introduces a theory-informed, multidimensional computational analysis of gendered dehumanization in incel discourse, comparing women- and men-associated terms across negative evaluation, moral disgust, animalistic framing, mind denial, and agency denial.

May 27, 2026

We present a theory-informed, multidimensional computational analysis of dehumanization in 10.3 million incel forum posts, comparing how women- and men-associated terms are represented across negative evaluation, moral disgust, animalistic framing, mind denial, and agency denial.

May 25, 2026

Presented work with Nick Haslam introducing a threshold-calibrated, prototype-based pipeline for tracking word sense prevalence in historical corpora. Applied to 109,940 uses of schizophrenia in U.S. news media, the study shows that rising semantic change scores can reflect contextual diversification within a stable dominant sense rather than sense redistribution, sense loss, or polysemization.

Mar 28, 2026

Presented the foundational SIBling paper at ACL 2024. The paper introduces a multidimensional framework for modeling lexical semantic change across Sentiment, Intensity, and Breadth, and applies it to semantic shifts in mental health and mental illness.

Aug 14, 2024