Janis Goldzycher

About Me

I am a PhD candidate in NLP at the University of Zurich focusing on the detection and analysis of hateful language with a special interest in model robustness, evaluation, and low‑resource scenarios. My work extends to interdisciplinary collaborations with social scientists to study the spread of propaganda and religious hate on social media.

I am funded by the project Argument Structures in the Automatic Detection of Intolerance and Extremism, which is part of an interdisciplinary research focus on Digital Religion(s). Previously, I contributed to the GeoKokos and AQDIV research projects.

Research Interests

• hate speech and abusive language detection
• robustness
• evaluation
• computational social science

News

• [May 2024] Our AustroTox paper has been accepted at ACL 2024
• [April 2024] Starting a research stay at MilaNLP until July 2024
• [March 2024] Our GAHD paper has been accepted at NAACL 2024
• [November 2023] Presenting our work on adversarial data collection at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC) 2023
• [October 2023:] Invited talk at Dynabench
• [September 2023:] Interdisciplinary co-operation Censorship in Democracy was awarded the Young Economist Award 2023 from NOeG
• [September 2023:] Co-organized the Fourth conference on Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI 2023)
• [Juli 2023:] Paper published at WOAH 2023 and paper published at SemEval 2023
• [October 2022:] Blog post explaining hate speech detection (in German)
• [October 2022:] Paper published at TRAC
• [Juli 2022:] Acquired funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Communications to build a German benchmark for hate speech detection
• [May 2022:] Gave an interview to SRF on “algospeak” together with Martin Volk (in German)
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Publications

Teaching

• [FS 2022] Lecturer for Seminar “Hate Speech Detection”, together with Martin Volk
• [HS 2021] TA for Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing I
• [HS 2020] TA for Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing I
• [FS 2018] TA for Programming Techniques for Computational Linguistics II
• [HS 2017] TA for Programming Techniques for
• Computational Linguistics III
• [FS 2017] TA for Introduction to Computational Linguistics II
• [HS 2016] TA for Introduction to Computational Linguistics I

Education

• [2021 - 2025]: PhD student at the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich
• [2019 - 2021]: MA in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (90) and Philosophy (30) at the University of Zurich
• [2015 - 2019]: BA in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (90), Philosophy (60) and General Linguistics (30) at the University of Zurich

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