Dr Scott A. Hale
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
About
Dr Scott A. Hale is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.
He develops and applies techniques from computer science to research questions in the social sciences. Dr Hale's research seeks to see more equitable access to quality information and investigates the spread of information between speakers of different languages online, the roles of bilingual Internet users, collective action and mobilization, hate speech, and misinformation.
Expertise
- Equitable access to quality information
- Bilingualism and the spread of information between speakers of different languages online
- Online collective action and mobilization
- Online harms (hate speech, misinformation, fact-checking)
- Natural language processing, machine learning, and AI to analyse large-scale social media data
- Computational social science
Selected publications
- Claim matching beyond English to scale global fact-checking. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics (2021)
- Demographic Inference and Representative Population Estimates from Multilingual Social Media Data. In Proceedings of the Web Conference 2019, WWW 2019, ACM
- Foreign-language Reviews: Help or Hindrance?, Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2017)
- Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action. Princeton University Press (2015)
- Global Connectivity and Multilinguals in the Twitter Network. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’14, ACM (2014)
- Multilinguals and Wikipedia Editing. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science (WebSci ’14). ACM
- Net Increase? Cross-lingual Linking in the Blogosphere. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2012)
Languages
English, Spanish, Japanese