Alberto Barrón-Cedeño 🎓
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Associate Professor

About Me

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I am Associate Professor at Università di Bologna since 2022 (after three years as Senior assistant professor; RTDb, in the Italian system). I have been working on the (cross-language) assessment of text looking at different aspects such as originality (e.g., plagiarism detection) and intent (e.g., propaganda, hate speech).

Visit my UniBO website for university matters.

Before landing at UniBO, I spent 5 years as a Scientist at the Language Technologies group of QCRI and 2 as research fellow at TALP.

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📚 My Research

I am an Associate Professor at Università di Bologna. My main mission is bringing (real) computing to the Department of Interpreting and Translation.

I research on the analysis and identification of harming contents online (from hate speech to propaganda and disinformation), I also play with NLP for Gastronomy and laterly I am engaged with varieties of languages.

Do not hesitate to reach out 😃

Recent News

📈 New paper published at IPM (if. 7.4)

Overview Research on knowledge graph construction (KGC) has recently shown great promise also thanks to the adoption of large language models (LLM) for the automatic extraction of structured information from raw text.

📈 New paper published at LRE (if. 1.7)

Overview This study examines whether the psycholinguistic and demographic characteristics of authors of online texts are correlated with the way harmful language, such as toxicity and hate speech, is judged. We apply artificial intelligence models to two harmful language datasets, Jigsaw’s Special Rater Pool dataset and the Measuring Hate Speech dataset, to generate probabilities for different text aspects, namely inferring demographic information of the author behind the suspicious text in terms of age and gender, as well as the expressed emotions, emotionality, sentiment and communication style.

📈 New paper published at ESWA (if. 7.5)

Overview Electronic mail (email) is one of the most popular communication media for direct and private communication. Being typically a free service and anonymity-friendly, massive spam email campaigns are common. Nowadays, spam email encompasses scam, phishing, malware distribution, and various other cybersecurity threats.

Meet the Team
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Alberto Barrón-Cedeño

Associate Professor | Università di Bologna

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Federico Garcea

Adjunct Professor | Università di Bologna

PhD students
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Arianna Muti

PhD student | Università di Bologna

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Paolo Gajo

PhD student | Università di Bologna

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Katerina Korre

PhD student | Università di Bologna

Masters students
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Debora Ciminari

Master student | Università di Bologna

Alumni
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Josu Boldoba

Senior Software Development Engineer (Former BSc student) | DerbySoft

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Marco Casavantes

PhD student | INAOE, Mexico

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Adriana Elena Cosma

Former MSc student | UPC

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Alice Fedotova

Research Fellow (former MA student) | Università di Bologna

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Francesco Fernicola

Computational Linguist (former PhD student) | European Parliament

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Ettore Galletti

Multimedia office at PICUM (former MA Student) | Università di Bologna

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Luca Giordano

MA student | UniBO

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Paolo Mainardi

MA student | UniBO

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Margherita Martinelli

Translation Manager (former MA student) | Stadler

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Mae Sosto

Alumni (MSc Student) | Università di Bologna

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Shibingfeng Zhang

Research Fellow (former MA student) | Università di Bologna