Keynote Speaker
18 February 2026Tommaso Caselli
Senior Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Dr. Tommaso Caselli is a Senior Assistant Professor at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, in particular event extraction and framing, as well as the detection and mitigation of hate speech and misinformation.
He is a co-founder of the Events and Stories in the News workshop series and co-editor of the volume Computational Analysis of Storylines (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He has organized several semantic evaluation campaigns for English, Dutch, and Italian, and has contributed to the development of linguistic resources for these languages.
His work appears in major computational linguistics conferences and journals, and has received two Outstanding Paper Awards (COLING 2022 and ACL 2023). From 2023 to 2025, he served as coordinator of the “AI and Language” theme within the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology, and AI at the University of Groningen.
Keynote Speech: To be Communicated
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