I am a PhD candidate in natural language processing focusing on the detection and analysis of hateful language online. I work for the project Argument Structures in the Automatic Detection of Intolerance and Extremism, part of an interdisciplinary research focus on Digital Religion(s).

Previously, I contributed to the GeoKokos and AQDIV research projects.

• hate speech and abusive language detection
• low-resource NLP
• robustness
• computational social science

• April-Juli 2024: Research stay at MilaNLP
• March 2024: Paper accepted at NAACL
• November 2023: Presenting our work on hate speech detection at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication 2023
• October 2023: Invited talk at Dynabench
• September 2023: Interdisciplinary co-operation "The End that Justifies the Means: Censorship in Democracy" was awarded the Young Economist Award 2023 from NOeG, preprint coming soon
• September 2023: Co-organized the fourth conference on Approaches to Migration, Language, and Identity (AMLI 2023)
• Juli 2023:Paper published at WOAH and paper published at SemEval
• October 2022: Blog post explaining hate speech detection (in German)
• October 2022:Paper  published at TRAC
• Juli 2022: Received funding from the Swiss Federal Office of Communications for a hate speech detection project
• May 2022: Gave aninterview to SRF on "algospeak" together with Martin Volk (in German)
• April 2022: Invited talk at the Faculty of Theology UZH about online hate speech and how to automatically detect it
• September 2021: Gave a workshop "Introduction to Automatic Text Processing" together with Gerold Schneider at the UFSP Digital Religion(s)

Janis Goldzycher, Paul Röttger, and Gerold Schneider. 2024. Improving Adversarial Data Collection by Supporting Annotators: Lessons from GAHD, a German Hate Speech Dataset.To appear in the Proceedings of North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Mexiko, Mexiko City, June 17–19.

Janis Goldzycher, Moritz Preisig, Chantal Amrhein, and Gerold Schneider. 2023. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Natural Language Inference for Hate Speech Detection in Languages with Limited Labeled Data. In The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), pages 187–201, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Janis Goldzycher. 2023. CL-UZH at SemEval-2023 Task 10: Sexism Detection through Incremental Fine-Tuning and Multi-Task Learning with Label Descriptions. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 1562–1572, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Janis Goldzycher, Gerold Schneider. 2022.Hypothesis Engineering for Zero-Shot Hate Speech Detection. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC 2022), pages 75–90, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 17 October 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Janis, Goldzycher, Jonathan Schaber. 2020. Detecting Noisy Swiss German Web Text Using RNN-and Rule-Based Techniques. In 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Zurich, 23 June 2020 - 25 June 2020, online.

Janis Goldzycher, Isabel Meraner, Martin Volk, Simon Clematide. 2020. Ranking Georeferences for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Toponym Annotations in a Historical Corpus of Alpine Texts. In 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Zurich, 23 June 2020 - 25 June 2020, online.

Tannon Kew, Anastassia Shaitarova, Isabel Meraner, Simon Clematide, Janis Goldzycher, Martin Volk. 2019. Geotagging a diachronic corpus of alpine texts: comparing distinct approaches to toponym recognition. In RANLP 2019, Workshop on Language technology for digital historical archives with a special focus on Central-, (South-)Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Varna, Bulgaria, 5 September 2019 - 5 September 2019, 11-18.

• August 2021 - now: PhD student at the Department of Computational Linguistics
• 2019 - 2021: MA in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (90) and Philosophy (30) at the University of Zurich
• 2015 - 2019: BA in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (90), Philosophy (60) and General Linguistics (30) at the University of Zurich