Home Page of Ted Pedersen

I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in Duluth . I am also a Principal Investigator at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. Here's an 8 minute video where I describe my research interests. (September 4, 2020)

Here's my Google Scholar profile and my full Curriculum Vitae (updated May 3, 2021)

Launching the Islamophobia and Natural Language Processing project (July 23, 2019)

August 19, 2019 update
December 13, 2019 update
May 4, 2020 update
August 12, 2020 update
November 13, 2020 update
December 14, 2020 update
I'd be happy to hear from students, faculty, or community members interested in colloborating on this project!

I'm on Twitter and (infrequently) YouTube.

A little advice for current or prospective graduate students interested in doing research with me. (Updated May 13, 2020)

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See my current office hours and contact information.

What's New?

Poster Presentation on Automatic Hate Speech Detection : The Case of Ilhan Omar and Islamophobia at the Histories of Artificial Intelligence Summer School (July 11, 2021)
Interview on The Voice of Islam UK on Islamophobia (June 7, 2021, starts at 1:22:00)
Co-organizer of SemEval-2021 Task 11 : NLP Contribution Graph (July 2020 - August 2021)
Co-organizer of Teaching NLP Workshop at NAACL-2021 (October 2020 - June 2021)
Panelist at Mexican NLP Summer School 2021 (June 4, 2021) See panel on YouTube
Data for SemEval-2021 Task 11 (NLP Contribution Graph) available on Zenedo (May 4, 2021)
UMD STEM Discovery Days - Ethics in Computer and Technology discussion (March 30, 2021)
Member of Ethics Review Committee for ACL-IJCNLP 2021 (March 2021 - April 2021)
Invited Talk on Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media at Muslims in ML, a NeurlPS workshop (December 8, 2020) See talk on SlidesLive
Invited Talk on Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media at UMass, Lowell (virtually) (November 6, 2020) See talk on YouTube
SemEval2020 paper on Humorous News Headlines available (September 6, 2020)
Member of Ethics Advisory Group for COLING-2020 (August 2020 - December 2020)
SemEval2020 paper on Offensive Language Detection available (July 25, 2020)
Publicity co-chair of COLING 2020 (June 2020 - December 2020)
Detecting Islamophobia with Natural Language Processing to the Text as Data Practice Group (May 13, 2020)
Interactive Workshop on What Makes Hate Speech at 2020 UMD Summit on Equity, Race, and Ethnicity (Mar 4, 2020)

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu