About me

I defended my PhD dissertation in April 2024 at ETH Zurich where I was writing my thesis on data-centric automated fact checking. During my time at ETH, I was supervised by Elliott Ash and Mrinmaya Sachan.

My research interests are in applied NLP, legal NLP, and to develop NLP methods which can be applied in the context of misinformation, online safety and the intersection NLP and climate change. Among others, I am investigating how to detect company greenwashing at scale, the practice of companies making generic, misleading or false claims to boost their environmental credentials.

Research (Selected Publications)

• Doctoral thesis: Towards Data-Centric Automated Fact Checking

• Environmental Claim Detection, with Nicolas Webersinke, Julia Bingler, Mathias Kraus and Markus Leippold (ACL 2023)

• Revisiting Automated Topic Model Evaluation with Large Language Models, with Vilém Zouhar, Alexander Hoyle, Mrinmaya Sachan and Elliott Ash (EMNLP 2023)

• The Choice of Textual Knowledge Base in Automated Claim Checking, with Boya Zhang and Elliott Ash (ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, 2023)

• Heroes, Villains, and Victims, and GPT-3: Automated Extraction of Character Roles Without Training Data , with Maria Antoniak and Elliott Ash (4th Workshop of Narrative Understanding, 2022)

• Evidence Selection as a Token-Level Prediction Task (Fourth Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification, 2021)

• e-FEVER: Explanations and Summaries for Automated Fact Checking, with Elliott Ash (Truth and Trust Online, 2020)

• Exploiting Evidence Enhancement for the FEVER Shared Task, with Günter Neumann (Second Workshop on Fact Extraction and VERification, 2019)

Involved in the following events

• ClimateNLP 2024: Organizing a Workshop collocated with ACL 2024 on Natural Language Processing meets Climate Change
• Sustainable Transition with AI: Program co-chair of the IJCAI-STAI 2024 workshop

Past events

• Accelerating Climate Change Action through Machine Learning: Organized a track in the Conference program at AMLD EPFL on March 25 and 26, 2024
• Hackathon at Latsis Symposium 2023: Organized the hackathon during the “Tackling Online Hate Speech and Strengthening Public Discourse” Symposium at ETH Zurich

Contact

• email: dominsta@ethz.ch
• twitter: dominsta_nlp
• github: dominiksinsaarland