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Elisabetta Fersini

University of Milano - Bicocca

Elisabetta Fersini is currently Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on machine learning for natural language processing. She has (co-)authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and served as reviewer in top journals (e.g. Information Science, Knowledge and Information Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Artificial Intelligence).

She was principal investigator in projects funded for data analytics and the organizer of the special session about Emotion and Sentiment in Intelligent Systems and Big Social Data Analysis at the IEEE-DSAA in 2015 and 2016. She was one of the organizers of the task on misogyny identification at Ibereval and Evalita 2018, and one of the organizers of the HatEval Task 5 at SemEval 2019. She is member of the editorial board of Information Processing and Management, Editor of the Book “Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks” (2016) and Guest Editor for the Special Issue Data Analytics and Optimization (Elsevier).