Stan Szpakowicz Author

Vivi Nastase holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa. A research associate at the Univer sity of Stuttgart, she works mainly on lexical semantics, semantic relations, knowledge acquisi tion, and language evolution.Stan Szpakowicz holds a Ph.D. from Warsaw University, and a D.Sc. from the Institute of Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Now an emeritus professor of Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, he has dabbled in NLP since 1969. His interests in the past several years include semantic relations and lexical resources.Preslav Nakov holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He leads the Tanbih mega-project, developed in collaboration with MIT, which aims to limit the impact of fake news, propaganda, and media bias.Diarmuid Ó Séagdha holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He works for Apple, and is a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the UC’s NLIP Research Group. His interests revolve around the application of machine learning techniques to semantic processing tasks.