Leon Derczynski

Affiliation: University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science

Leon Derczynski is a researcher focused on natural language processing with particular expertise in rumour detection, misinformation analysis, and crisis informatics. He is a key organizer of the RumourEval shared task.

Key work

• RumourEval 2019 — shared task extending 2017 with Reddit data
• SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval — shared task on rumour veracity and stance
• PHEME project — research on rumour verification in social media

Topics

• Rumour detection
• Stance classification
• Crisis Informatics