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Simona Frenda

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6215-3374

  • Riccarton

    EH14 4AS Edinburgh

    United Kingdom

20192025

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I am a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University and co-founder of the startup aequa-tech. I obtained a PhD in a co-supervised programme between the University of Turin and the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Computer Science in 2022, with an awarded thesis that examines implicit manifestations of abusive language against women, migrants, and cultural minorities in a multilingual setting, paying particular attention to the role of humour. My research focuses on investigating and creating AI for the well-being of our community: i) moderating hate speech online, ii) empowering people with pedagogical technologies to distinguish fake news and utilise gender-inclusive language, and iii) implementing and evaluating models aware of diverse human viewpoints on the same phenomenon. I am also co-organiser of various shared tasks such as IronITA 2018, HaSpeeDe 2020 and EMit 2023 at EVALITA, DETESTS-Dis 2024 at IberLEF, GFG 2024 at CALAMITA, and POLAR 2025 at SemEval, and several editions of the NLPerspectives workshop at ECAI 2023, LREC 2024 and EMNLP 2025.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  2. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  3. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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  • Are you sure? Measuring models bias in content moderation through uncertainty

    Urbinati, A., Lai, M., Frenda, S. & Stranisci, M. A., 4 Nov 2025, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 18061–18076 16 p.

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  • Can NLP Tackle Hate Speech in the Real World? Stakeholder-Informed Feedback and Survey on Counterspeech

    Dinkar, T., Jiang, A., Frenda, S., Gerrard-Abbott, P., Gunson, N., Abercrombie, G. & Konstas, I., 6 Aug 2025, arXiv.

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  • Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative

    Nissim, M., Croce, D., Patti, V., Basile, P., Attanasio, G., Musacchio, E., Rinaldi, M., Borazio, F., Francis, M., Gili, J., Scalena, D., Altuna, B., Azurmendi, E., Basile, V., Bentivogli, L., Bisazza, A., Bolognesi, M., Brunato, D., Caselli, T. & Casola, S. & 61 others, Cassese, M., Cettolo, M., Collacciani, C., Cosmo, L. D., Buono, M. P. D., Esuli, A., Etxaniz, J., Ferrando, C., Fidelangeli, A., Frenda, S., Fusco, A., Gaido, M., Galassi, A., Galli, F., Giordano, L., Goffetti, M., Gonzalez-Dios, I., Gregori, L., Grundler, G., Iannaccone, S., Jiang, C., Quatra, M. L., Lagioia, F., Lo, S. M., Madeddu, M., Magnini, B., Manna, R., Mercorio, F., Merlo, P., Muti, A., Nastase, V., Negri, M., Onorati, D., Palmieri, E., Papi, S., Passaro, L., Pensa, G., Piergentili, A., Potertì, D., Puccetti, G., Ranaldi, F., Ranaldi, L., Ravelli, A. A., Rosola, M., Ruzzetti, E. S., Samo, G., Santilli, A., Santin, P., Sarti, G., Sartor, G., Savoldi, B., Serino, A., Seveso, A., Siciliani, L., Torroni, P., Varvara, R., Zaninello, A., Zanollo, A., Zanzotto, F. M., Zeinalipour, K. & Zugarini, A., 4 Dec 2025, arXiv.

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  • POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization

    Naseem, U., Geislinger, R., Ren, J., Kohail, S., Veliz, R. G., Sahil, P. S., Zhang, Y., Stranisci, M. A., Abdulmumin, I., Alacam, Ö., Acartürk, C., Jabr, A., Anwar, S., Ayele, A. A., Frenda, S., Cignarella, A. T., Tutubalina, E., Rogov, O., Htet, A. K. & Wang, X. & 23 others, Thapa, S., Rauniyar, K., Chakraborty, T., Zeeshan, A., Kodati, D., Keerthi, S., Moradizeyveh, S., Alam, F., Hasan, A., Ahmed, S. I., Thu, Y. K., Parida, S., Qazi, I. A., Wanzare, L., Onyango, N. O., Siro, C., Kimani, J. W., Ahmad, I. S., Ali, A. C., Semmann, M., Biemann, C., Muhammad, S. H. & Yimam, S. M., 27 May 2025, arXiv.

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  • Stereohoax: a multilingual corpus of racial hoaxes and social media reactions annotated for stereotypes

    Schmeisser-Nieto, W. S., Cignarella, A. T., Bourgeade, T., Frenda, S., Ariza-Casabona, A., Laurent, M., Cicirelli, P. G., Marra, A., Corbelli, G., Benamara, F., Bosco, C., Moriceau, V., Paciello, M., Patti, V., Taulé, M. & D’Errico, F., Sept 2025, In: Language Resources and Evaluation. 59, 3, p. 2031-2069 39 p.

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