Regular biography
Dr Christine de Kock is a lecturer at The University of Melbourne, affiliated with the CS department. She holds the title of Doreen Thomas Fellow and can be contacted via email at christine.dekock@unimelb.edu.au. Her professional profile is available at https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/1043001. Specific details regarding her research interests and existing biography are not provided in the available information.
Scholar-generated biography
Christine de Kock is a natural language processing researcher at Melbourne University, focusing on machine learning applications in text analysis. Her work addresses challenges in emotion detection, semantic textual relatedness, and misinformation detection. She has contributed to projects such as SemEval-2025 task 11, which aims to bridge gaps in text-based emotion detection, and has developed datasets for 28 languages. Her research also explores online communities, including radicalisation indicators, community structure evolution, and language dynamics. Additionally, she investigates human-annotated emotion recognition datasets and the role of language in shaping discourse, particularly in mental health and climate change contexts.