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episode 87: Natural Language Processing with Social Media Data, with Dr. Leon Derczynski
Dr. Leon Derczynski, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, guests to discuss how natural language processing and computational linguistics can be applied to social media data.
We break down several of Dr. Derczynski's EU-funded research projects, from detecting the informativeness of tweets in crisis communication to assessing the veracity of claims through comment patterns on Twitter and Reddit.
Dr. Derczynski also shares his thoughts on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deepfake detection.