2026 Dirk Hovy: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6553	6364	154	152	129	7958

Overview

Dirk Hovy is affiliated with Bocconi University in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their published works span a significant range of topics related to natural language processing, computational social science, and machine learning methodologies.

The main topics covered in Hovy's research include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Text Readability and Simplification
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Computational and Text Analysis Methods

Hovy's recent papers include:

"Five sources of bias in natural language processing" (2021), published in Language and Linguistics Compass
"Learning from Disagreement: A Survey" (2021), published in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
"What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"A Case for Soft Loss Functions" (2020), published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
"SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Hovy include:

Paul Röttger
Debora Nozza
Federico Bianchi
Amanda Cercas Curry
Anne Lauscher

Common venues where Hovy publishes research are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Language and Linguistics Compass
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

Hovy has also authored books published by well-known academic publishers. These include:

"Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists" (2020 and 2022 editions), published by Cambridge University Press
"Computational Sociolinguistics" (2023), published by Frontiers Media

Best Publications

Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter

Zeerak Waseem;Dirk Hovy

2005
Citations
The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing

Dirk Hovy;Shannon L. Spruit

333
Citations
Predictive Biases in Natural Language Processing Models: A Conceptual Framework and Overview

Deven Santosh Shah;H. Andrew Schwartz;Dirk Hovy

298
Citations
Learning Whom to Trust with MACE

Dirk Hovy;Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick;Ashish Vaswani;Eduard Hovy

295
Citations
Five sources of bias in natural language processing

Dirk Hovy;Shrimai Prabhumoye

249
Citations
Pre-training is a Hot Topic: Contextualized Document Embeddings Improve Topic Coherence

Federico Bianchi;Silvia Terragni;Dirk Hovy

219
Citations
Learning from Disagreement: A Survey

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198
Citations
Personality Traits on Twitterâ€”orâ€”How to Get 1,500 Personality Tests in a Week

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy

196
Citations
Demographic Factors Improve Classification Performance

Dirk Hovy

191
Citations
Multitask learning for mental health conditions with limited social media data

Adrian Benton;Margaret Mitchell;Dirk Hovy

152
Citations
Cross-lingual Contextualized Topic Models with Zero-shot Learning

Federico Bianchi;Silvia Terragni;Dirk Hovy;Debora Nozza

132
Citations
Tagging Performance Correlates with Author Age

Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

121
Citations
Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks

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115
Citations
The Importance of Modeling Social Factors of Language: Theory and Practice

Dirk Hovy;Diyi Yang

114
Citations
User Review Sites as a Resource for Large-Scale Sociolinguistic Studies

Dirk Hovy;Anders Johannsen;Anders Søgaard

110
Citations
Learning part-of-speech taggers with inter-annotator agreement loss

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

106
Citations
What the [MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models

Debora Nozza;Federico Bianchi;Dirk Hovy

106
Citations
Cross-lingual syntactic variation over age and gender

Anders Johannsen;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

105
Citations
Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong

Barbara Plank;Dirk Hovy;Anders Sogaard

100
Citations
Multi-Task Learning for Mental Health using Social Media Text.

Adrian Benton;Margaret Mitchell;Dirk Hovy

89
Citations
HONEST: Measuring Hurtful Sentence Completion in Language Models

Debora Nozza;Federico Bianchi;Dirk Hovy

69
Citations
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Yulia Tsvetkov;Nathan Schneider;Dirk Hovy;Archna Bhatia

69
Citations
We Need to Consider Disagreement in Evaluation

Valerio Basile;Michael Fell;Tommaso Fornaciari;Dirk Hovy

67
Citations
Beyond Black & White: Leveraging Annotator Disagreement via Soft-Label Multi-Task Learning.

Tommaso Fornaciari;Alexandra Uma;Silviu Paun;Barbara Plank

51
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Søgaard University of Copenhagen

Barbara Plank Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Eduard Hovy Carnegie Mellon University

Massimo Poesio Queen Mary University of London

Fernando Vega-Redondo Bocconi University

Margaret Mitchell Hugging Face

Ashish Vaswani Google (United States)

Ole Winther Technical University of Denmark

Chris Dyer Google (United States)

Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Dirk Hovy

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