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Professor Kalina Bontcheva

Professor · School of Computer Science Regent Court

University of Sheffield · United Kingdom
Social mediamisinformationand abuse analysis – AI-generated misinformation detectiononline abuse analysisand hate speech detectionlarge-scalereal-time analysis of social media contentlongitudinal research on online abuse

About

Kalina Bontcheva is a professor of natural language processing (NLP) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, co-affiliated with Sheffield’s Center for Freedom of the Media. Her research lies at the intersection of NLP, computational social media analysis, and web science, with applications to digital humanities, social science, digital journalism, business intelligence, and data science.Between 2014 and 2016 Kalina conceived and led the PHEME international project, which was amongst the first EU projects to study computational methods for the detection and tracking of disinformation in social media. She is currently the scientific director of the veraAI project, and previously the WeVerify, SoBigData++ and SoBigData international projects. Since 2015 Kalina has al

Selected publications

  • (2026) Countering Disinformation in the Era of Generative AI. Springer Nature Switzerland.
  • Aref S, Bontcheva K, Braghieri M, Giannotti F, Pedreschi D, Dignum F & Grisolia F (2020) Preface.
  • Vrandečić D, Bontcheva K, Suárez-Figueroa MC, Presutti V, Celino I, Sabou M, Kaffee LA & Simperl E (2018) Preface.
  • Vrandečić D, Bontcheva K, Suárez-Figueroa MC, Presutti V, Celino I, Sabou M, Kaffee LA & Simperl E (2018) Preface.
  • Maynard D, Bontcheva K & Augenstein I (2017) Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web. Springer International Publishing.
  • Maynard D, Bontcheva K & Augenstein I (2016) Natural Language Processing for the Semantic Web. Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
  • Cunningham H, Maynard D, Bontcheva K, Tablan V, Aswani N, Roberts I, Gorrell G, Funk A, Roberts A & Damljanovic D (2011) Text Processing with Gate (Version 6). GATE.
  • Leite JA, Razuvayevskaya O, Bontcheva K & Scarton C (2026) LLM-Based Adversarial Persuasion Attacks on Fact-Checking Systems.. CoRR, abs/2601.16890.
  • Razuvayevskaya O & Bontcheva K (2026) Truth with a Twist: The Rhetoric of Persuasion in Professional vs. Community-Authored Fact-Checks.. CoRR, abs/2601.14105.
  • Papadopoulos S, Mezaris V, Bontcheva K & Rogers R (2026) Preface. Countering Disinformation in the Era of Generative AI, vii-viii.

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