Zeerak Waseem

Researcher at the University of Copenhagen focused on computational social science, hate speech detection, and data quality in NLP annotation. Known for critical perspectives on crowdsourced annotation and the influence of annotator expertise on model behavior.

Sources in this wiki

• Are You a Racist or Am I Seeing Things? Annotator Influence on Hate Speech Detection on Twitter

Topics

• Hate speech detection
• Annotation bias
• Crowdsourcing

Notes

Author of foundational work on comparing expert and amateur annotations for hate speech, introducing intersectional annotation approaches. Research emphasizes the sociotechnical challenges of creating reliable hate speech datasets.