Keynote Speakers
22 November 2024Isabelle Augenstein
Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Isabelle Augenstein is a full professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. She leads the Copenhagen Natural Language Understanding research group, the Natural Language Processing section, and co-leads the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Her primary research interests focus on fair and accountable Natural Language Processing (NLP), addressing challenges such as explainability, factuality, and bias detection.
She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant for the project “Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking” as well as a DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader fellowship, the Danish equivalent, for the project “Learning to Explain Attitudes on Social Media.” Since 2024, she has been a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Additionally, she serves as President of SIGDAT, the organization behind the EMNLP conference series, and is a co-founder of Widening NLP (WiNLP). She also maintains the BIG Directory, a resource for members of underrepresented groups and their allies in NLP.
Keynote Speech: TBD
Stefano Mizzaro
Professor, University of Udine, Italy
Stefano Mizzaro is a full professor at the Department of Mathematics, Informatics, and Physics of the University of Udine.
He has been working for more than 30 years on information retrieval, mainly focusing on effectiveness evaluation. More recently he has also worked on crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence, and misinformation assessment.
On these topics he has published more than 150 scientific papers in national and international venues, he has received some grants and awards, and he is currently coordinating the national project “MoT – The Measure of Truth: An Evaluation-Centered Machine-Human Hybrid Framework for Assessing Information Truthfulness”.