Yi (Wendy) Zheng

PhD student

University of Edinburgh

I am a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Björn Ross. My current research is on generating counterspeech responses for online hate speech.

Interests

NLG, Hate Speech & Counterspeech, Social Science

Publications

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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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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