Veronika Batzdorfer

Natural Language Processing · Machine Learning · Computational Social Science

Selected Talks & Presentations

Computational Modeling & Digital Methods

  • 21–24/07/2025 IC2S2

    Attitude Shifts under Ideal Discussion Conditions: Stability, Shift and Depolarization

    International Conference on Computational Social Science, Norrköping

  • AI
    07–08/07/2025 Venice

    Synthetic Annotators for Sensitive Narratives: LLMs in Psychological Text Analysis and Bias Detection

    Taking sides, telling stories: LLMs in the analysis of public discourse, Venice

  • 03–04/04/2025 Weizenbaum

    Biases with LLMs as Crowdworkers for Labeling

    SSaLM: Social Science and Language Models Workshop, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin

  • 03/09/2024 CCS

    Success-Driven User Activity: Using ABM Modeling to Understand Online Polarization

    Conference on Complex Systems (CCS): MODIS Workshop, Exeter

  • NLP
    12/09/2022 CPSS Invited

    Theory-Driven Modelling of Complex Socio-Psychological Constructs in Text

    Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis, Potsdam

    With Dr. Valentin Gold, Prof. Dr. Camille Roth, Prof. Dr. Henning Wachsmuth

  • 28/05/2019 Dubrovnik

    Sampling Social Media in Radicalization Research

    Big Data in Psychology Pre-conference, Dubrovnik

Conspiracy Theories & Social Dynamics

  • 11–13/11/2024 Max Planck

    How Social Feedback, Habits, and Norms Shape Conspiracy Engagement in Online Communities

    Max Planck Institute Conference: Political Narratives in Public Discourse, Leipzig

  • 20/07/2023 IC2S2

    Conspiracy Theorizing: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops Through Online Expressions

    IC2S2 – International Conference on Computational Social Science, Copenhagen

  • Summer 2023 BIGSSS Workshop

    Simulating Conspiracy Beliefs through Large Language Models and Evolutionary Psychology

    BIGSSS Summer School in Computational Social Science, Bremen

    10-day advanced NLP and data science hackathon · Project Leader and Lecturer

  • COVID-19
    03/11/2022 ODISSEI

    Conspiracy Theories on Twitter: Emerging Motifs and Temporal Dynamics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    ODISSEI Conference for Social Sciences in the Netherlands, Utrecht

  • 18–19/11/2021 EASP Online

    Dynamics of Conspiracy Theories on Twitter: A Multi-Level Perspective

    Small Group Meeting Social Implications of Conspiracy Theories, European Association of Social Psychology

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    04–08/01/2021 Digital Methods Online

    COVID-19 Conspiracy Books Ecologies: Mapping Discrepancies Across Amazon, Goodreads, and Audible Routes to Problematic Content

    Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint

    Hackathon participant

AI, Public Opinion & Regulation

  • 01–03/12/2025 SOME4DEM Stakeholder

    Others also know stuff: Emerging epistemic humility in online political discussions

    Resilient Democracy Online: Reimagining Civic Debate on Social Media, BRIAS, Brussels

  • AI
    09/05/2023 Frankfurt

    Public Opinion on EU Regulations on Artificial Intelligence – An Unobtrusive NLP Approach

    Symposium on Big Data and Research Synthesis in Psychology (focus on Machine Learning and Open Science), Frankfurt am Main