Two posters, "Assessing AI-Generated Counter-Speech in Human Likeness" led by Xiaoying Song and "Enhancing Health Communication: Developing LLM-based Models to Generate Effective Counter Speech Against Misinformation" led by Anirban, were selected as the top 10 finalist to be presented in the event of the Day of Health Informatics and Data Science on Sep 20, 2024 at the University of North Texas. Anirban's poster won the 1st place award. Congratulations!
Dr. Lingzi Hong is awarded $415,366 for the project "Inclusive Services to Enhance Immigrants' Resilience to Crisis" by the Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS National Leadership Grants. Dr. Ana Roeschley and Dr. Yunfei Du are the Co-PIs of this project. The award number is: LG-256661-OLS-24. Thank you IMLS for the support!
Dr. Lingzi Hong is awarded $132,759 for the project "Gauging Library Needs for Advanced AI-Assisted Cataloging" by the IMLS National Leadership Grants. Jason Thomale from UNT Libraries is the Co-PI of this project. The award number is: LG-256666-OLS-24.
The project "Building Community College Library Capacity for Supporting Students’ Data Literacy Needs" is awarded $249,998 by the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Thank you Dr. Jeonghyun Kim for leading the project! Dr. Lingzi Hong and Dr. Sarah Evans are the Co-PIs of the project. The award number is: RE-256673-OLS-24.
In ASIS&T 2024: long paper "Nostalgia on Twitter: Detection and Analysis of a Large-scale Dataset" was accepted (AR=32%). Dr. Lingzi Hong will co-organize a workshop "4th Annual Workshop on Social Media Research, Challenges, and Opportunities" with Dr. Souvick Ghosh and Dr. Catherine Dumas. Dr. Lingzi Hong will also co-organize a panel "Social Media and Crisis Informatics Research in LIS". See you in Calgary, Canada!
Xiaoying and Dr. Hong will deliver two tutorials "Data Collection, Classification, and Transformation" "Comprehending the Semantic Essence of Text: Leveraging SEANCE for Textual Analysis" for the IDEA Institute on AI 2024 by the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
Dr. Hong was selected to attend the 2024 NSF SaTC Aspiring PI workshop at the University of Chicago with a $1000 travel fund awarded (selection rate: 38.5%).
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.
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.
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.
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
Research 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.
Journal paper "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.