In this talk, I will present an overview of my research at the intersection of language, society, and technology. My work combines Natural Language Processing with insights from the Social Sciences and Humanities to investigate socially relevant phenomena, with a particular focus on how meaning is constructed, communicated, and interpreted across different forms of public discourse, from journalism and academic writing to social media.

My research has addressed topics such as online hate speech, gender representation, and environmental discourse, examining how language shapes public debates while reflecting broader social and cultural dynamics. Spanning several generations of NLP technologies, from early neural approaches to large language models, this work has also explored questions of robustness, generalization, and transfer across domains, languages, and tasks.

Drawing on examples from recent and ongoing projects, I will discuss both the opportunities and the limitations of language technologies for studying complex social phenomena, and highlight potential directions for interdisciplinary collaboration.