PhD Projects

DC1:Towards an automatic characterization of micro-level structures in discourse from social networks

PhD fellow: DC1
Host institution: Radboud University (RU)
Country: The Netherlands
Principal Supervisor: Dr Nelleke Oostdijk (RU)

DC2:Analysis and measurement of the impact of political discourse in the citizen’s opinion

PhD fellow: DC2
Host institution: University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Country: Spain
Principal Supervisor: Dr Martin Pereira (USC)

DC3:Identifying the stance of argumentative opinions in the political discourse

PhD fellow: DC3
Host institution: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Country: Italy
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sara Tonelli (FBK)

DC4:Analysis of political propagation campaigns in social networking platforms

PhD fellow: DC4
Host institution: University of Evora (UEVORA)
Country: Portugal
Principal Supervisor: Dr Renata Vieira (UEVORA)

DC5:Analysis of the role of disinformation to automatically identify hate speech against immigrants on multilingual social environments

PhD fellow: DC2
Host institution: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Country: Italy
Principal Supervisor: Dr Sara Tonelli (FBK)

DC6: Detection of toxic bots in Twitter by analysing textual content

PhD fellow: DC6
Host institution: University of Caen (UNICAEN)
Country: France
Principal Supervisor: Dr Gaël Dias (UNICAEN)

DC7:Detection of hyperpartisan political news

PhD fellow: DC7
Host institution: University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Country: Spain
Principal Supervisor: Dr Pablo Gamallo (USC)

DC8: Hybrid data generation and retrieval for the detection of online harassment

PhD fellow: DC8
Host institution: Gesis Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences (GESIS)
Country: Germany
Principal Supervisor: Dr Claudia Wagner (GESIS)

DC9: Claim verification for fact-checking

PhD fellow: DC9
Host institution: Newtral Media Audiovisual SL (NEWTRAL)
Country: Spain
Principal Supervisor: Dr Rubén Miguez (NEWTRAL)

DC10: Detecting harassment on social media beyond isolated messages

PhD fellow: DC10
Host institution: University of Coruña (UDC)
Country: Spain
Principal Supervisor: Dr J. Parapar (UDC)

DC11: Cross-lingual claim detection for fact-checking

PhD fellow: DC11
Host institution: Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
Country: United Kingdom
Principal Supervisor: Dr Arkaitz Zubiaga (QMUL)