Organisers

Helena Bonaldi is a Junior Researcher in the Language and Dialogue Technologies group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento. Her research focuses on employing conversational agents to write counterspeech against online hate. She has co-organised the Workshop on Counterspeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA) at the joint Sigdial-INLG 2023 conference and the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING 2025.

Yi-Ling Chung is a senior research scientist at Genaios. Her work currently addresses misinformation and online harms through fact-checking, abuse detection, and response generation and investigates the impact of new AI techniques on online safety. She co-organised the Workshop on Counterspeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA) and the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 7 and 8).

Marco Guerini is the head of the Language and Dialogue Technologies group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK).  He works on NLP for persuasive communication, sentiment analysis and social media. In recent years his research has focused on the development of AI technologies to support counter narrative generation to fight online hate speech. He graduated in Philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Trento. He is author of several scientific publications in top-level conferences and international journals and organiser of workshops and shared tasks.