Flor Plaza

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dirk Hovy‘s MilaNLP lab at Bocconi University. My research interests mainly focus on the interplay between language, computation, and society, primarily through the lens of emotions and harmful language —endeavors aligned with the vision of Natural Language Processing for social good. I am passionate about actively using my expertise and the potential of NLP to drive a positive impact on society.
In January 2023, I obtained my Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the SINAI lab at the University of Jaén (Spain), making significant contributions to hate speech detection and emotion identification, particularly in Spanish.
I’m co-organizing The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms at ACL 2025 and the First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions at ICWSM 2025. I recently co-organized the Tutorial on Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online at EMNLP 2024. I have also co-organized several shared tasks, including EmoEvalEs and MeOffendES at IberLEF 2021 and 2022, as well as MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2023 and 2024. Additionally, I co-organized the 36th, 37th, and 39th editions of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Conference (SEPLN).