Winner: Centre for Data, Culture, and Society (CDCS) Digital Research Prizes 2025, Best Impact from a Data-Led Project
Awarded: Impact Acceleration Award (IAA), Proposal: Building Support Buddy for Online Gender-Based Violence
Presenters: The Open University Centre for Protecting Women Online (CPWO) Inaugural Conference on Tech-Based Abuse, September 2025
Tutorial on NLP for Counterspeech Against Hate & Misinformation @ ACL 2025, July 2025
Pending: Consultation Response to Ofcom Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Guidance, May 2025
Presenter: Scottish Government VAWG Policy Forum, 21 May 2025
ILCC School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh seminar: Equally Safe Online? Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence Through Participatory Design, December 2024
Spanish Ministry of National Defence: Foro contra las campañas de desinformación y discurso de odio (Forum against Disinformation Campaigns and Hate Speech), September 2024
Gavin Abercrombie, Tanvi Dinkar, Amanda Cercas Curry, Verena Rieser, and Dirk Hovy. 2025. Consistency is Key: Disentangling Label Variation in Natural Language Processing with Intra-Annotator Agreement. In Proceedings of the The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gavin Abercrombie, Valerio Basile, Simona Frenda, Sara Tonelli, and Shiran Dudy. 2025. Proceedings of the The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Aiqi Jiang, Nikolas Vitsakis, Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie, and Ioannis Konstas. 2024. Re-examining Sexism and Misogyny Classification with Annotator Attitudes. In Findings of EMNLP 2024.
Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, Florence Enock, Jonathan Bright, and Verena Rieser. 2024. Understanding Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation. Northern European Journal of Language Technology.
Simona Frenda, Gavin Abercrombie, Valerio Basile, Alessandro Pedrani, Raffaella Panizzon, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Cristina Marco, and Davide Bernardi. 2024. Perspectivist approaches to natural language processing: a survey. Language Resources & Evaluation. Springer.
Helena Bonaldi, Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, and Marco Guerini. 2024. NLP for Counterspeech against Hate: A Survey and How-To Guide🔧. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024, pages 3480–3499, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Aashima Poudhar, Ioannis Konstas, and Gavin Abercrombie. 2024. A Strategy Labelled Dataset of Counterspeech. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024), pages 256–265, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Amanda Cercas Curry, Gavin Abercrombie, and Zeerak Talat. 2024. Subjective Isms? On the Danger of Conflating Hate and Offence in Abusive Language Detection. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2024), pages 275–282, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gavin Abercrombie, Nikolas Vitsakis, Aiqi Jiang, and Ioannis Konstas. 2024. Revisiting Annotation of Online Gender-Based Violence. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 31–41, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
Abercrombie, Gavin., Basile, Valerio., Bernadi, Davide., Dudy, Shiran., Frenda, Simona., Havens, Lucy., & Tonelli, Sara. 2024. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives)@ LREC-COLING 2024.
Sachin Sasidharan Nair, Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie. 2024. Exploring Reproducibility of Human-Labelled Data for Code-Mixed Sentiment Analysis. ReproHum 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie, Verena Rieser. 2024. ReproHum #0927-03: DExpert Evaluation? Reproducing HumanJudgements of the Fluency of Generated Text. ReproHum 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gavin Abercrombie, Amanda Curry, Tanvi Dinkar, Verena Rieser, and Zeerak Talat. 2023. Mirages. On Anthropomorphism in Dialogue Systems. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 4776–4790, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Yi-Ling Chung, Helena Bonaldi, Gavin Abercrombie, and Marco Guerini. 2023. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on CounterSpeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gavin Abercrombie, Aiqi Jiang, Poppy Gerrard-Abbott, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser. 2023. Resources for Automated Identification of Online Gender-Based Violence: A Systematic Review. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Online Harms and Abuse (WOAH). Association for Computational Linguistics.
Gavin Abercrombie, Dirk Hovy, and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran. 2023. Temporal and Second Language Influence on Intra-Annotator Agreement and Stability in Hate Speech Labelling. In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), pages 96–103, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Elisa Leonardelli, Gavin Abercrombie, Dina Almanea, Valerio Basile, Tommaso Fornaciari, Barbara Plank, Verena Rieser, Alexandra Uma, and Massimo Poesio. 2023. SemEval-2023 Task 11: Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi). In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 2304–2318, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Nikolas Vitsakis, Amit Parekh, Tanvi Dinkar, Gavin Abercrombie, Ioannis Konstas, and Verena Rieser. 2023. iLab at SemEval-2023 Task 11 Le-Wi-Di: Modelling Disagreement or Modelling Perspectives?. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1660–1669, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.