Bjorn Ross
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Applies natural language processing, social network analysis and agent-based modelling to study social media, including misinformation, hate speech and bots.
Bjorn Ross's lab at Edinburgh works on language & society, reasoning & agents and social computing & responsible AI. 30 papers since 2023, 7 at top venues, mostly EMNLP and AAMAS. 15 PhD students. 20 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 23%
- PhD students
- 15
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 20
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 3
- 3 papers2024 · T1 1
- 10 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EMNLP, AAMAS, ACL, CHI, COLING
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Social computing & responsible AI5 papers
- Language & society4 papers
- Reasoning & agents0 papers
- agent-based0 papers
- agent-based modelling0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- CHI (T1)‘God says we are right!’: The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital MediaBeyond the Game: Comparing Political News Coverage and Twitter Discussions during the 2022 FIFA World Cup (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaFabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the ACM Web Science ConferenceGendered Communication Patterns of Political Elites on Truth Social (opens in a new tab)
- AI & SocietyGenerative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse: views from UK law enforcement (opens in a new tab)
- SemEvalSMASH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual Polarisation with Encoder Ensembles and Calibrated Decision Thresholds (opens in a new tab)
- CLPsychThe Attachment Index: Auditing Attachment Language Cues and Relational Safety Risks in Human-LLM Dialogue (opens in a new tab)
- EACLValidating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores (opens in a new tab)
20259 papers
- CSCW (T1)‘The Prophet said so!’: On Exploring Hadith Presence on Arabic Social Media (opens in a new tab)
- Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems“Till I can get my satisfaction”: Open Questions in the Public Desire to Punish AI (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection (opens in a new tab)
- MetaGenAIEvaluating Long-Term Memory for Long-Context Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Nineteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social MediaExperiences of Censorship on TikTok Across Marginalised Identities (opens in a new tab)
- Behaviour & Information TechnologyLe$bean or lesbian? A survey of marginalised users’ motivations for obfuscation on TikTok (opens in a new tab)
- Learning and Reasoning: ILPMisCC: Misinformation Detection on Counterfactual Claims (opens in a new tab)
- Sociological Methods & ResearchThe Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
20243 papers
- Workshop Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Workshop: NOCAPS - Networks and Opinions on Climate Action in the Public SphereDetecting statements in text: a domain-agnostic few-shot solution (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster (opens in a new tab)
- CSCW Companion ‘24: Companion Publication of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingTwiXplorer: An Interactive Tool for Narrative Detection and Analysis in Historic Twitter Data (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- AAMAS (T1)A Web-based Tool for Detecting Argument Validity and Novelty (opens in a new tab)
- Journal of Data and Information QualityBiases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory and Discussion (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Cross-lingual Transfer Can Worsen Bias in Sentiment Analysis (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in PediatricsDevelopment of a smartphone virtual reality game to support the radiation therapy of children and adolescents in proton centers (opens in a new tab)
- Social Science Computer ReviewPotential Pitfalls With Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias (opens in a new tab)
- International Journal of Management PracticeRecommendations for Managing AI-Driven Change Processes: When Expectations Meet Reality (opens in a new tab)
- NLP-OSSRumour Detection in the Wild: A Browser Extension for Twitter (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsStereotypes and Smut: The (Mis)representation of Non-cisgender Identities by Text-to-Image Models (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the GenBench Workshop on (Benchmarking) Generalisation in NLPTemporal Generalizability in Multimodal Misinformation Detection (opens in a new tab)
- CS4OAWhat Makes Good Counterspeech? A Comparison of Generation Approaches and Evaluation Metrics (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went20 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
- Round
- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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