Dirk Hovy

Associate Professor
Knowledge groupMarketing
Research domainsComputational Social Science
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Dirk Hovy

Biography

Dirk Hovy is an Associate Professor at Università Bocconi where he works on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science.

Previously, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, he is also the scientific director of BIDSA’s Data and Marketing Insights (DMI) research unit, and head of the MilaNLP lab. He organized a conference (EMNLP 2017) and various workshops on abusive language, ethics in NLP, and computational social science. work in natural language processing and computational social science, and he is interested in modeling what language can tell us about society, and what computers can tell us about language. He also works on ethics and fairness in NLP and AI. Technique-wise, he is interested in transfer learning, multitask learning, reinforcement learning and adversarial learning. He received a 2020 ERC Starting Grant to explore the effect of sociodemographic variables on NLP models, and to integrate the two. 

He got a PhD in Natural Language Processing, from USC, and a Master's in sociolinguistics in Germany. 

Recent Publications

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  • 2024
    IA & società
    HOVY, D., "IA & società", Eco, July 2024
  • 2024
    Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty
    BOSE, P., L. LUPO, M. HABIBI, D. HOVY, C. , R. SCHWARZ, "Beyond the Stats: Realities, Perception, and Social Media Discourse on Poverty", American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2024, vol. 114, pp. 690-694
  • 2024
    Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned Language Model Crowds. Exploring Model Label Variation
    PLAZA DEL ARCO, F. M., D. NOZZA, D. HOVY, "Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned Language Model Crowds. Exploring Model Label Variation" in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024, May 20-25, 2024, Torino, Italy
  • 2024
    “My Answer is C”: First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models
    WANG, X., B. MA, C. HU, L. WEBER-GENZEL, P. RÖTTGER, F. KREUTER, D. HOVY, B. PLANK, "“My Answer is C”: First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models" in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2024
    Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps
    ATTANASIO, G., B. SAVOLDI, D. FUCCI, D. HOVY, "Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps" in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024, Miami, FL, United States of America
  • 2024
    Divine LLaMAs: Bias, Stereotypes, Stigmatization, and Emotion Representation of Religion in Large Language Models
    PLAZA DEL ARCO, F. M., A. C. CURRY, S. PAOLI, A. CERCAS CURRY, D. HOVY, "Divine LLaMAs: Bias, Stereotypes, Stigmatization, and Emotion Representation of Religion in Large Language Models" in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024, Miami, FL, United States of America
  • 2024
    Angry Men, Sad Women: Large Language Models Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution
    PLAZA DEL ARCO, F. M., A. CERCAS CURRY, A. CERCAS CURRY, G. ABERCROMBIE, D. HOVY, "Angry Men, Sad Women: Large Language Models Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution" in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2024
    Narratives at Conflict: Computational Analysis of News Framing in Multilingual Disinformation Campaigns
    SINELNIK, A., D. HOVY, "Narratives at Conflict: Computational Analysis of News Framing in Multilingual Disinformation Campaigns" in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2024
    Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP
    CERCAS CURRY, A., G. ATTANASIO, Z. TALAT, D. HOVY, "Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP" in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2024
    Political Compass or Spinning Arrow? Towards More Meaningful Evaluations for Values and Opinions in Large Language Models
    RÖTTGER, P., V. HOFMANN, V. PYATKIN, M. HINCK, H. KIRK, H. SCHUETZE, D. HOVY, "Political Compass or Spinning Arrow? Towards More Meaningful Evaluations for Values and Opinions in Large Language Models" in Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Bangkok, Thailand

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Grants & Honors

  • Bocconi Teaching Award per l'anno accademico 2023-2024 - “Innovation in Teaching”, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2025

  • Teaching Award - PhD School, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, 2022

  • ERC Starting Grant INTEGRATOR, PI (1.5M EUR), 2020