Dirk Hovy

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Dirk Hovy
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Dirk is an associate professor working on natural language processing and computational social science. Previously, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, got a PhD from USC, and a master's in sociolinguistics in Germany.

He is also the scientific director of BIDSA’s Data and Marketing Insights (DMI) research unit, and head of the MilaNLP lab. He has organized a conference (EMNLP 2017) and various workshops (on abusive language, ethics in NLP, and computational social science).

Outside of work, he enjoys cooking, leather-crafting, and picking up heavy object to put them back down. 

Commentaries on Innovation and Digital Transition

What does the EU AI Act mean for Research?
2023

While increased bureaucratic documentation might make the European AI research landscape less appealing, better documentation will likely result in more thorough and potentially meaningful research.