We are glad to announce that the program will include two keynote speakers

Walter Daelemans, Universiteit Antwerpen

Title: The LiLaH Project: Improving Hate Speech Detection With Linguistic Knowledge

Walter Daelemans (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/staff/walter-daelemans/) is professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Antwerp where he directs the CLiPS computational linguistics research group. His research interests are in machine learning of natural language, for example in the development of Memory-Based Language Processing; computational psycholinguistics, especially exemplar based alternatives to mental rules as representations explaining language acquisition and processing; computational stylometry, with a focus on authorship attribution and author profiling from text; and language technology applications, for example biomedical information extraction, cybersecurity systems for social networks, hatespeech detection, and conversational agents.

Viviana Patti, Università degli Studi di Torino

Title: Abusive Language Detection on Social Media: Are We Far from the Shallow Now?

Viviana Patti (https://www.unito.it/persone/vpatti) is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Turin and part of the scientific board and executive committee of the Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition. Her main research interests are in the areas of NLP, Computational Linguistics and Affective Computing, and include sentiment analysis, emotion recognition and irony detection, with a focus on social media texts and the relation between language and social structure. She is applying her research in the field of hate speech monitoring, with a special interest on hate speech against migrants, populist rhetoric and automatic misogyny identification. She has been and is involved in funded projects on fighting hate speech and stereotypes against immigrants. She leads the development of Twitter corpora and models for multilingual hate speech detection and sentiment analysis exploited in shared tasks and international evaluation campaigns for different languages. She coordinated the pilot project "EVALITA4ELG: EVALITA Italian language reference resources, NLP services and tools for the ELG platform" funded by the European Language Grid H2020 project. She has (co-)authored 100+ peer-reviewed-publications, and serves regularly on boards and committees in NLP/AI journals and conferences. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC).