Björn Ross

he/him

Reader (Associate Professor)

University of Edinburgh

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Interests

Computational social science, Information systems, Social media

Publications

• "God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026

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• Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'26) · 2026

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• Beyond the Game: Comparing Political News Coverage and Twitter Discussions during the 2022 FIFA World Cup

  Sandrine Chausson, Youssef Al Hariri, Axel Bruns, Walid Magdy, Björn Ross

  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media · 2026

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• Gendered Communication Patterns of Political Elites on Truth Social

  Tom Bidewell, Artemis Deligianni, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Clare Llewellyn, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 · 2026

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• Generative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse: views from UK law enforcement

  Cyndie Demeocq, Alex Taylor, Björn Ross, Ashleigh McFeeters

  AI & Society · 2026

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• Le$bean or lesbian? A survey of marginalised users' motivations for obfuscation on TikTok

  Eddie Ungless, Nina Markl, Björn Ross

  Behaviour & Information Technology · 2026

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• SMASH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual Polarisation with Encoder Ensembles and Calibrated Decision Thresholds

  Zahra Bokaee, Alessandra Terranova, Yi Zheng, Tom Bidewell, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2026) · 2026

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• The Attachment Index: Auditing Attachment Language Cues and Relational Safety Risks in Human-LLM Dialogue

  Cyndie Demeocq, Animesh Prasad, Marzieh Saeidi, Karen Goodall, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026) · 2026

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• Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores

  Yi Zheng, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2026

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• 'The Prophet said so!': On Exploring Hadith Presence on Arabic Social Media

  Mahmoud Fawzi, Walid Magdy, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'25) · 2025

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• The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning

  Sandrine Chausson, Marion Fourcade, David J. Harding, Björn Ross, Grégory Renard

  Sociological Methods & Research · 2025

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• "Till I can get my satisfaction": Open Questions in the Public Desire to Punish AI

  Eddie Ungless, Björn Ross, Zachary Horne

  Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2025

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• Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection

  Agostina Calabrese, Tom Sherborne, Björn Ross, Mirella Lapata

  Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025

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• Experiences of Censorship on TikTok Across Marginalised Identities

  Eddie Ungless, Nina Markl, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025

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• MisCC: Misinformation Detection on Counterfactual Claims

  Xue Li, Vaishak Belle, Björn Ross

  Learning and Reasoning: 4th International Joint Conference, IJCLR 2024 · 2025

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• The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models

  Eddie Ungless, Nikolas Vitsakis, Zeerak Talat, James Garforth, Björn Ross, Arno Onken, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Alexandra Birch

  Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2025

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• TwiXplorer: An Interactive Tool for Narrative Detection and Analysis in Historic Twitter Data

  Youssef Al Hariri, Sandrine Chausson, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing · 2024

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• Detecting statements in text: a domain-agnostic few-shot solution

  Sandrine Chausson, Björn Ross

  Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (NOCAPS 2024) · 2024

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• Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster

  Agostina Calabrese, Leonardo Neves, Neil Shah, Maarten Bos, Björn Ross, Mirella Lapata, Francesco Barbieri

  Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2024

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• Cross-lingual Transfer Can Worsen Bias in Sentiment Analysis

  Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Björn Ross, Adam Lopez

  The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023

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• Rumour Detection in the Wild: A Browser Extension for Twitter

  Andrej Jovanovic, Björn Ross

  3rd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software · 2023

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• Temporal Generalizability in Multimodal Misinformation Detection

  Nataliya Stepanova, Björn Ross

  Proceedings - The first workshop on (benchmarking) generalisation in NLP · 2023

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• What Makes Good Counterspeech? A Comparison of Generation Approaches and Evaluation Metrics

  Wendy Zheng, Björn Ross, Walid Magdy

  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on CounterSpeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA) · 2023

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• Stereotypes and Smut: The (Mis)representation of Non-cisgender Identities by Text-to-Image Models

  Eddie Ungless, Björn Ross, Anne Lauscher

  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023

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• Biases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory and Discussion

  Roberto Navigli, Simone Conia, Björn Ross

  Journal of Data and Information Quality · 2023

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• Development of a smartphone virtual reality game to support the radiation therapy of children and adolescents in proton centers

  Leonardo Schenck, Christian Bäumer, Björn Ross, Gabriele Schäfer, Nicole Stember, Heike Thomas, Stefan Stieglitz, Beate Timmermann

  Frontiers in Pediatrics · 2023

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• A Web-based Tool for Detecting Argument Validity and Novelty

  Sandrine Chausson, Ameer Saadat-Yazdi, Xue Li, Jeff Z. Pan, Vaishak Belle, Nadin Kokciyan, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems · 2023

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• A robust bias mitigation procedure based on the Stereotype Content model

  Eddie Ungless, Amy Rafferty, Hrichika Nag, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science · 2023

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• Potential Pitfalls with Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias

  Eddie Ungless, Björn Ross, Vaishak Belle

  Social science computer review · 2023

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• Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics: A Solution for the Data Sharing Problem

  Dennis Assenmacher, Derek Weber, Mike Preuss, André Calero Valdez, Alison Bradshaw, Björn Ross, Stefano Cresci, Heike Trautmann, Frank Neumann, Christian Grimme

  Social science computer review · 2022

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• Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling

  Agostina Calabrese, Björn Ross, Maria Mirella Lapata

  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2022

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• KEViN: A Knowledge Enhanced Validity and Novelty Classifier for Arguments

  Ameer Saadat-Yazdi, Xue Li, Sandrine Chausson, Vaishak Belle, Björn Ross, Jeff Z. Pan, Nadin Kokciyan

  Proceedings of 9th Workshop on Argument Mining · 2022

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• The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double‐Edged Sword

  Stefan Stieglitz, Björn Ross

  Media and Communication · 2022

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• Design principles for conversational agents to support Emergency Management Agencies

  Stefan Stieglitz, Lennart Hofeditz, Felix Brünker, Christian Ehnis, Milad Mirbabaie, Björn Ross

  International Journal of Information Management · 2022

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• Caught in a networked collusion? Homogeneity in conspiracy-related discussion networks on YouTube

  Daniel Röchert, German Neubaum, Björn Ross, Stefan Stieglitz

  Information Systems · 2022

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• The Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Expression: An Agent-Based Model

  Benjamin Cabrera, Björn Ross, Daniel Röchert, Felix Brünker, Stefan Stieglitz

  Journal of Business Economics · 2021

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• Caught in a networked collusion? Homogeneity in conspiracy-related discussion networks on YouTube

  Daniel Röchert, German Neubaum, Björn Ross, Stefan Stieglitz

  Information Systems · 2021

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• Recommendations for Managing AI-Driven Change Processes: When Expectations Meet Reality

  Stefan Stieglitz, Nicholas R. J. Möllmann (Frick), Milad Mirbabaie, Lennart Hofeditz, Björn Ross

  International Journal of Management Practice · 2021

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• AAA: Fair Evaluation for Abuse Detection Systems Wanted

  Agostina Calabrese, Michele Bevilacqua, Björn Ross, Rocco Tripodi, Roberto Navigli

  WebSci ‘21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 · 2021

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• Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics: A Solution for the Data-Sharing Problem

  Dennis Assenmacher, Derek Weber, Mike Preuss, André Calero Valdez, Alison Bradshaw, Björn Ross, Stefano Cresci, Heike Trautmann, Frank Neumann, Christian Grimme

  Social Science Computer Review · 2021

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• Comparison of disclosure/concealment of medical information given to conversational agents or to physicians

  Nicholas R J Frick, Felix Brünker, Björn Ross, Stefan Stieglitz

  Health Informatics Journal · 2021

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• The perceived surveillance of conversations through smart devices

  Nicholas R.J. Frick, Konstantin L. Wilms, Florian Brachten, Teresa Hetjens, Stefan Stieglitz, Björn Ross

  Electronic Commerce Research and Applications · 2021

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• Understanding Collaboration with Virtual Assistants – The Role of Social Identity and the Extended Self

  Milad Mirbabaie, Stefan Stieglitz, Felix Brünker, Lennart Hofeditz, Björn Ross, Nicholas R.J. Frick

  Business and Information Systems Engineering · 2021

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• Caution: Rumors ahead—A case study on the debunking of false information on Twitter

  Anna-Katharina Jung, Björn Ross, Stefan Stieglitz

  Big Data & Society · 2020

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• Design Requirements for AI-based Services Enriching Legacy Information Systems in Enterprises: A Managerial Perspective

  Nicholas Frick, Felix Brünker, Björn Ross, Stefan Stieglitz

  Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems · 2020

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• Towards a Better Understanding of Online Influence: Differences in Twitter Communication Between Companies and Influencers

  Diana C Hernandez-Bocanegra, Angela Borchert, Felix Brünker, Björn Ross

  Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems · 2020

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