Updates

2026

  • May 2026 — A Multidimensional Computational Analysis of Dehumanization in Incel Discourse published in the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2026 proceedings, with the conference presentation delivered on behalf of the author team by Jemima Kang in Los Angeles, United States.
  • May 2026 — SenseRel: A Sense-Level Benchmark for Denotational and Connotational Meaning Relations accepted to ACL 2026 in San Diego, United States.
  • March 2026 — Presented a threshold-calibrated word sense disambiguation paper at 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change 2026 (LChange'26), co-located with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco -extending a hypothesis-driven framework to track how the prevalence of word senses shifts over time, applied to schizophrenia.
  • March 2026 — Served as Program Chair for LChange'26, the 6th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change, co-located with EACL 2026; proceedings published by the Association for Computational Linguistics.

2025

  • August–September 2025 — Completed a funded two-month research internship at Change is Key!, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, collaborating on diachronic semantic change in mental health discourse — work that led to SenseRel, accepted to ACL 2026.

  • September 2025 — Presented invited talks at Utrecht University, the University of Gothenburg, and the National Research Council Canada.

  • July 2025 — ACL 2025 Best Resource Paper Award (Resources & Evaluation): Contributor to BRIGHTER — a large multilingual dataset for emotion recognition across 28 languages, including many low-resource languages from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe; awarded Best Resource Paper at ACL 2025. Contributed Romanian-language annotation (team lead: Daniela Teodorescu).

  • July 2025 — Presented LSC-Eval at Findings of ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria.

  • July 2025 — Presented SIBling and LSC-Eval to an interdisciplinary audience of social scientists and computational researchers at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden.

  • June 2025 — Co-recipient of Hallmark Research Initiative seed funding (AUD $15,000) for a seven-member team project on ‘Automatic evaluation of mental health stigma in online communication’, led by Yulia Otmakhova.

  • May 2025 — Appointed Teaching Assistant for BUSA90543: Natural Language Processing at Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, co-running weekly workshops for Master of Business Analytics students.

  • March 2025 — Appointed Australian English Language Co-Lead for the BLEnD SemEval-2026 Shared Task — a benchmark evaluating cultural awareness in language models across 26 languages and 30 countries/regions — with Christine de Kock.

  • February 2025 — Published The structure and evolution of social psychology: a co-citation network analysis in The Journal of Social Psychology, with Professor Nick Haslam and Dr Milad Haghani.

  • February 2025 — Selected to attend the Google Research @ Sydney Student Event at Google Australia’s Sydney research facility.

2024

  • August 2024 — Presented SIBling at The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • June 2024 — Co-authored a public-facing article with Professor Nick Haslam in The Conversation on what we should call mental distress — and why the words we use matter. Companion to our PLOS Mental Health paper on historical shifts in the popularity of generic terms for mental ill health.
  • January 2024 — Co-authored a public-facing article in The Conversation on what people actually mean by “the common good” — and finding common ground across political groups. Companion to our British Journal of Social Psychology paper using folk theories to uncover shared conceptions of the “common good”, with Dr Melissa Wheeler, Associate Professor Samuel Wilson, and Dr Vlad Demsar.

2023

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