Smaranda Muresan
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Bio:
Smaranda Muresan is a Research Scientist at the Data Science Institute (DSI) and the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Her research is focused on computational models for understanding language in context, such as social context, visual context or multilingual context, with application to computational social science, education and public health. Specific areas of interest are argument mining and persuasion, figurative language understanding and generation, multilingual language processing for low resource languages, NLP for social good.