Dr. Irhamni successfully defended his dissertation: "Assessing the Readiness for Implementing Linked Open Government Data: a Study on Indonesian Government Agencies' Library". He will continue working as a Data Scientist for the National Library of Indonesia Strategic Planning Management Bureau.
PhD student Meseret Zeleke's paper Cross-Continental Dialogues: Analyzing the Dichotomy of Social Media Discourse in Ethiopian Social Movement #Nomore won the Lis and Philip Turner Outstanding Student Paper/Project Award.
PhD student Xiaoying Song is awarded the COI/IS Leon M. Liddel Scholarship. Congratulations!
Dr. Irhamni successfully defended his dissertation: Assessing the Readiness for Implementing Linked Open Government Data: a Study on Indonesian Government Agencies' Library. He will continue working as a Data Scientist for the National Library of Indonesia Strategic Planning Management Bureau.
Dr. Lingzi Hong is invited to serve as the iConference 2024 online moderator.
The research proposal with Dr. Zhang, Mohammed Huraysi, and Sharon Perez has been accepted by the AI in Action Workshop at UNT. Thank you Dr. Zhang for leading the project!
Dr. Lingzi Hong is invited to serve on the Tutorial Committee at the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2 2024) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lingzi Hong is invited to serve on the NSF IIS Human-Centric Computing (HCC) review panel.
2023
Our paper A Fine-Grained Taxonomy of Replies to Hate Speech was accepted by the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023).
At the ASIS&T 2023 conference, I will co-organize the 3rd Annual Workshop on Social Media Research, Challenges, and Opportunities, a panel: Online Incivility and Contextual Factors: Data-driven Detection and Analysis, and have a paper presentation: Development and Validation of a Data Literacy Assessment Scale.
I am awarded the OpenAI's API through the Researcher Access Program.
The journal paper I Co-authored "Community college students' self-assessment of data literacy: exploring differences amongst demographic, academic, and career characteristics" is published by the Information and Learning Sciences.
Navya's paper "An Emerging Adults’ Patient Portal Behavioral Model: Integrating Perceived Risk Theory, Technology Acceptance Model, and Personal Innovativeness" is published by the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Impact Factor: 4.7)!
Sharon, Xiaoying, and Mohoarema make presentations for their research projects in the Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS 2023).
Meseret's poster #Nomore: An Analysis of Topics and Sentiments Indicative of the War in Ethiopia is in the Runners Up of the Best Poster Award at the iConference 2023. Congratulations Meseret!
I am invited to be the contributing faculty for the GIS+CS program at the Department of Geography and Environment at UNT.
TAMS student Ashley Zhao was admitted to the Computer Science major at Cornell University. Congratulations Ashley!
Welcome two fresh PhD students Xiaoying Song and Sharon Perez to our lab!
Dr. Xinchen Yu successfully defended her dissertation: Countering Hate Speech: Modeling User-Generated Web Content Using Natural Language Processing.
Xinchen Yu got an offer as an Assistant Professor in Practice in Computer Science at the University of Arizona. Congratulations!
2022 and before
The research proposal I Co-PIed "Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Librarians, Students and Faculty" was awarded $118,996 by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Aura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.
I got a Research Seed Grant of $3,000 from the UNT College of Information with the proposal "Counter Hate Speech Detection and Generation".
I will temporarily work as the Director of the Bachelor of Science in Data Science Program at UNT.
Our paper "Hate Speech and Counter Speech Detection: Conversational Context Does Matter" was presented at the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL).
I am invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the Aslib Journal of Information Management.