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Alessandra Teresa Cignarella is a Senior Researcher at Ghent University, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP). She is funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (2024-2026) for her project RAINBOW, which researches stereotypes towards the LGBTQIA+ community using multilingual NLP. Previously (2021-2023), she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin in the STERHEOTYPES project, analyzing racial hoaxes in Mediterranean Europe.
- PhD in Computer Science (NLP) (2021) from University of Turin and Universitat Politècnica de València.
- Co-founder of aequa-tech, an NLP startup addressing digital disparity through tools like Debunker-Assistant for fake news detection.
Her research spans irony detection, stance analysis, hate speech, and multilingual NLP. Articles highlight work on datasets like TRIC (trilingual irony detection), Stereohoax (racial hoaxes), and HODIAT (homotransphobic hate speech). Her work integrates social psychology and computational linguistics to address digital disparity and ethical AI.
She has received recognition through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship and has co-authored key publications in conferences like ACL 2024 and LREC-COLING 2024. Her projects emphasize societal empowerment, including educational NLP programs for high school students.
