DEFENCE OF THE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION BY ANDRAŽ PELICON

Defence of the Doctoral Dissertation by Andraž Pelicon

IPS invites you to the Defence of the Doctoral Dissertation by Andraž Pelicon titled: Modelling Hate Speech and Sentiment in News and Social Media Posts. The defence will take place on Friday, 23 October 2026, at 2:30 p.m. at the IPS Lecture Room (N205-N206, Jamova c. 39, 1000 Ljubljana).

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Kralj Novak.

Co-Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Senja Pollak.

Short summary:

This doctoral dissertation addresses the development of methods for hate speech detection and sentiment analysis in user-generated online content and news. It addresses three key challenges: data imbalance, multilingual environments, and improving the cross-lingual generalization of language models.

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