I am a PhD student working for the project Argument Structures in the Automatic Detection of Intolerance and Extremism under the supervision of Gerold Schneider and Martin Volk. My main focus is the development and analysis of automatic methods to detect and analyse hateful and abusive language online.
Previously, I was part of the GeoKokos-Team lead by Simon Clematide.
Education
- 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
Publications
Goldzycher, Janis and Schneider, Gerold. 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.
Goldzycher, Janis; Schaber, Jonathan (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.
Goldzycher, Janis; Meraner, Isabel; Volk, Martin; Clematide, Simon (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.
Kew, Tannon; Shaitarova, Anastassia; Meraner, Isabel; Clematide, Simon; Goldzycher, Janis; Volk, Martin (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.
Teaching
| FS 2022 | Lecturer Hate Speech Detection together with Martin Volk |
| HS 2021 | TA for Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing I |
| HS 2020 | TA for Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing I |
| FS 2018 | TA for Programming Techniques for Computational Linguistics II |
| HS 2017 |
TA for Programming Techniques for Computational Linguistics III |
| FS 2017 |
TA for Introduction to Computational Linguistics II |
| HS 2016 | TA for Introduction to Computational Linguistics I |
More
- Blog post explaining hate speech detection (non-technical, in German): https://www.uzh.ch/blog/digitalreligions/2022/10/24/ueber-die-automatische-erkennung-von-hassrede/
- SRF interview on algospeak: https://www.srf.ch/wissen/mensch/kreative-influencer-algospeak-diese-geheimsprache-soll-algorithmen-austricksen