Projects
Current · Postdoc projectPERSONAE
During my postdoc at Bocconi University, I work in the ERC project PERSONAE led by Debora Nozza. I’m currently investigating biases present in the data and the role of LLMs in the information environment.
Current · Co-leadMULTIVIEW
Recommendation algorithms have a profound impact on democracies: They can boost or hinder the interaction of citizens with several opinions and viewpoints. In this project we develop methods to reshape news recommendation. We develop methods grounded in communication theory to automatically identify perspectives in news articles and develop a recommender that provides a wide view of perspectives to users. This allows, for example, news consumers to have a broader understanding of events or current affairs in the world.
Funded by MINT-INNOVATION 2024 from Vector-Stiftung and Software Campus 2023 (in collaboration with Springer Nature and Die Zeit).
Past · PhD projectMARDY: Modeling ARgumentation DYnamics in Political Discourse
I’ve worked in the MARDY project throughout my PhD. MARDY is an interdisciplinary collaboration, combining Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Political Science, that aims to create computational models and techniques for investigating argumentation in political discourse. We tracked the evolution of discursive (claims and justifications) exchanges on contentious topics within the COVID debate over time.