News archive

_{17 June 2022. Presented the poster “Beyond Gun Control: Creating a Dutch Stance Dataset for Diversity in News Recommendation” from my abstract on current work on a Dutch Political Stance dataset (shared work with Social Science colleagues at the VU, among them Kasper Welbers) at Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN32).}

_{June 2022. Followed the SIKS “Responsible AI” course, which had a roleplaying game where we pretended to be different stakeholders for AI used for automatic resume scanning in hiring, after an ableist hiring incident. My role: the HR department. :-)}

_{13 June 2022. Received small grant (with dr. Ana Lopes from the Department of Social Science @ VU) for our interdisciplinary project “Reasons for online (dis)trust in sustainable initiatives” - financed by the Interdisciplinarity in the Digital Society VU grant. –>}

_{18 Feb 2022. Presented this poster - of my previously published paper on NLP in news rec - at the Network Institute’s event on interdisciplinarity in the Digital Society. Paper was joint work with the project group Rethinking News Algorithms. Also, I networked at this network event! :-)}

_{17 Feb 2022. Participated in the CCS.Amsterdam Workshop on Code Quality.}

_{18 Jan 2022. Interview in Dutch national newspaper Trouw about my problems with a credit check algorithm of the Dutch National Railway company (NS) - a topic related to ethics in data science/AI and thus something I care deeply about.}

_{17 Jan 2022. Published a book summary and review of the book “Linguistics for the Age of AI” in the LINGUIST List. My conclusion: Interesting, but may miss info for its intended audience(s).}

_{10 Nov 2021. Presented my paper “Is Stance Detection Topic-Independent and Cross-topic Generalizable? – A Reproduction Study”, a systematic and careful reproduction and assessment of cross-topic stance detection, at the Argument Mining Workshop at EMNLP, on-site in the Dominican Republic!}

_{4 Nov 2021. Participated in an excellent workshop on supervising students by the Forum of Young Scientists - and learned a lot about supervision and communication in supervision!}

_{2 Nov 2021. Spoke about my MA thesis work on weak supervision for smoking status detection at the 2nd Dutch meeting on Clinical NLP at Radboud University, Nijmegen.}

_{29 Oct 2021 Our project team on diversity in news recommendation organized a workshop for stakeholders (News organizations and policy makers) at the University of Amsterdam..}

_{27 Sept 2021 - 1 Oct 2021. On-Site Student Volunteer at RecSys2021, a hybrid conference in Amsterdam. I made new connections, saw some collaborators in 3D for the first time, and often tweeted relevant or interesting talks.}

_{16 Sept 2021. Published my first blog post, about my one-year anniversary as a PhD Candidate and 5 things I learned in my first year!}

_{25 Aug, 2021. Participated in the Summer Seminar on Research Integrity organized by the Netherlands Research Integrity Network. Live-tweeted.}

_{5 Aug, 2021. Presented our project agenda paper at the workshop on NLP for Positive Impact, co-located at ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (Online)}

_{9 July, 2021. Presented two talks at CLIN31 (Online) (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands): an oral talk on my ReMA thesis on smoking status in clinical files and one poster on “Viewpoints in the news: claim detection for diverse news recommendation.”}