Amanda Cercas Curry
Incoming Lecturer in AI, Department of Social Statistics, University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities · Member, AI & Security cluster, Centre for Digital Trust and Society
My research sits at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and feminist theory, with the aim of building more just language technologies. I draw on philosophy, sociolinguistics and psychology, and study them empirically using methods from NLP and HCI — with a particular focus on social class, gender, emotion and hate speech.
I completed my PhD at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Verena Rieser, and was most recently a researcher at the CENTAI Institute and a postdoctoral researcher at MilaNLP, Bocconi University. I also co-host a podcast on tech ethics, Let's Chat Ethics.
Recent highlights
A few of the projects I've been working on. See the full list or publications for more.
Social class in NLP
Showing empirically that NLP systems disadvantage less-privileged socioeconomic groups, and arguing for socioeconomic status to be treated as seriously as age and gender in language technology.
Penelope: Emotions in NLP
A multidisciplinary project bringing together philosophy, psychology and NLP to study emotion analysis — including how large language models reflect gendered emotion stereotypes.
Hate, offence and subjectivity
Arguing that conflating hate and offence can invalidate findings on hate speech, and calling for future work to be grounded in theory.
Get in touch
For research enquiries, prospective students, or talks: amanda.cercascurry@manchester.ac.uk