Regular biography
Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on natural language processing and text mining, with an emphasis on applications in areas such as hate speech detection, recipe understanding, and dialectal Arabic identification. She is actively involved in collaborative projects that explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and social impact, including work on human rights investigation and sustainable development goals. Her contributions include conference contributions and publications in computational linguistics and related fields.
Scholar-generated biography
Riza Batista-Navarro is a Senior Lecturer in Text Mining at the University of Manchester, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Her research focuses on leveraging text mining techniques to extract meaningful insights from diverse textual sources, including scientific literature, parliamentary debates, and social media. She has contributed to the development of annotated corpora for biomedical and chemical data, as well as tools for sentiment analysis and knowledge extraction. Her work emphasizes the application of NLP methods to domains such as pharmacovigilance, requirements engineering, and discourse analysis, aiming to enhance the interoperability and utility of textual information.