Dr Monica Lestari Paramita

BSc (Indonesia), MSc (91Ö±²¥), PhD (91Ö±²¥)

Information School

Lecturer in Data Science

Monica Paramita
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m.paramita@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Monica Lestari Paramita
Information School
Room C227
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91Ö±²¥
S10 2AH
Profile

I obtained my BSc in Computer Science from the University of Indonesia in 2006 and MSc in Information Management from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 2008. Since 2008, I have worked as a researcher in diverse areas in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.

My research roles included investigating cross-lingual similarity in the Web, developing systems to support information access (e.g., incorporating voice-based input, visualising bias and transparency in search results), and analysing users' behaviour when interacting with such systems.

I obtained my PhD from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 2019 where I developed approaches for identifying cross-lingual similarity in Wikipedia articles.

I joined the Information School as a Lecturer in Data Science in September 2021.

University Responsibilities

  • Deputy Programme Coordinator for BSc Data Science
  • Researcher Development Lead
Research interests

My research focuses on the study of bias and transparency in information retrieval and multilingual information access. I am especially interested to investigate how bias-aware search engines should be designed to support users in their search tasks. I am also interested in researching cross-lingual similarity in Wikipedia; this includes creating methods to measure cross-lingual similarity, understanding why dissimilar information exists, and how this impacts different users (e.g., users in different locations or those speaking different languages).

I would be interested in supervising PhD topics in the following areas:

  • bias and transparency in search engines
  • multilingual information access, such as multilingual search and cross-lingual similarity in Wikipedia.
Publications

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Journal articles

  • Paramita ML, Orphanou K, Christoforou E, Otterbacher J & Hopfgartner F (2021) . Information Processing & Management, 58(5). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kleanthous S, Otterbacher J, Bates J, Giunchiglia F, Hopfgartner F, Kuflik T, Orphanou K, Paramita ML, Rovatsos M & Shulner-Tal A (2021) . ACM SIGIR Forum, 55(1). RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Clough PD, Hill T, Paramita M & Goodale P (2017) . Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (pp 207-219). Thessaloniki, Greece, 18 September 2017 - 18 September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Clough P & Gaizauskas R (2017) . ECIR 2017: Advances in Information Retrieval (10193) (pp 663-669). Aberdeen, UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barrón-Cedeño A, Paramita ML, Clough P & Rosso P (2014) (pp 424-429) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sanderson M, Paramita ML, Clough P & Kanoulas E (2010) . Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp 555-562). Geneva, Switzerland, 19 July 2010 - 19 July 2010. RIS download Bibtex download

All publications

Journal articles

  • Paramita M, Kasinidou M, Kleanthous S, Rosso P, Kuflik T & Hopfgartner F (2024) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 75(5), 581-599. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Orphanou K, Christoforou E, Otterbacher J & Hopfgartner F (2021) . Information Processing & Management, 58(5). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kleanthous S, Otterbacher J, Bates J, Giunchiglia F, Hopfgartner F, Kuflik T, Orphanou K, Paramita ML, Rovatsos M & Shulner-Tal A (2021) . ACM SIGIR Forum, 55(1). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kleanthous S, Otterbacher J, Bates J, Giunchiglia F, Hopfgartner F, Kuflik T, Orphanou K, Paramita ML, Rovatsos M & Shulner-Tal A (2021) Report on the CyCAT winter school on fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics (FATE) in AI.. SIGIR Forum, 55, 4:1-4:1. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wakeling S, Creaser C, Pinfield S, Fry J, Spezi V, Willett P & Paramita M (2019) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(7), 754-768. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gaizauskas R, Paramita ML, Barker E, Pinnis M, Aker A & Pahisa Solé M (2015) . Terminology, 21(2), 205-236. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita ML, Barker E & Gaizauskas R (2014) Bootstrapping term extractors for multiple languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, 483-489. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita ML, Pinnis M & Gaizauskas R (2014) Bilingual dictionaries for all EU languages. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, 2839-2845. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Gordea S, Paramita ML & Isaac A (2020) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 102-112). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Skadiņa I, Gaizauskas R, Vasiļjevs A & Paramita ML (2019) , Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 1-11). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Babych B, Su F, Hartley A, Aker A, Paramita ML, Clough P & Gaizauskas R (2019) , Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 13-53). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Aker A, Clough P, Gaizauskas R, Glaros N, Mastropavlos N, Yannoutsou O, Ion R, Ștefănescu D, CeauÅŸu A , TufiÈ™ D et al (2019) , Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 55-87). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang Z & Paramita M (2019) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 716-732). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Ion R, Mastropavlos N, Paramita M, Pinnis M, Åžtefănescu D, Su F, Thurmair G, Irimia E, LjubeÅ¡ić N , Kanoulas E et al (2019) , Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing (pp. 291-323). Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2013) In Sharoff S, Rapp R, Zweigenbaum P & Fung P (Ed.) Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Guthrie D, Kanoulas E, Gaizauskas R, Clough P & Sanderson M (2013) , Building and Using Comparable Corpora (pp. 93-112). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lestari Paramita M & Grubinger M (2010) , The Information Retrieval Series (pp. 141-162). Springer Berlin Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Preiss J & Paramita ML (2023) Do origin and facts identify automatically generated text?. Proceedings of the Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum (IberLEF 2023), Vol. 3496. Andalusia, Spain, 26 September 2023 - 26 September 2023. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Kasinidou M, Kleanthous S & Hopfgartner F (2023) BASE: a Bias-Aware news Search Engine for improving user awareness [Prototype]. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3480 (pp 76-82) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Barker J, Gaizauskas R, Ma N & Paramita ML (2022) SNuC: The 91Ö±²¥ Numbers Spoken Language Corpus. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp 1978-1984). Marseille, France, 20 June 2022 - 20 June 2022. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clough PD, Hill T, Paramita M & Goodale P (2017) . Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (pp 207-219). Thessaloniki, Greece, 18 September 2017 - 18 September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Clough P & Gaizauskas R (2017) . ECIR 2017: Advances in Information Retrieval (10193) (pp 663-669). Aberdeen, UK RIS download Bibtex download
  • Funk A, Aker A, Barker E, Paramita ML, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2017) . Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2017.(10193) (pp 758-761). Aberdeen, UK, 8 April 2017 - 8 April 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Paramita ML, Aker A, Kurtic E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) . Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp 42-52). Los Angeles, USA, 13 September 2017 - 13 September 2017. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barker E, Paramita M, Funk A, Kurtic E, Aker A, Foster J, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) What's the issue here?: Task-based evaluation of reader comment summarization systems. Proceedings of LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp 2094-3101). Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 23 May 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Kurtic E, Balamurali AR, Paramita M, Barker E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) . Advances in Information Retrieval, Vol. 9626 (pp 15-29). Padua, Italy, 20 March 2016 - 20 March 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita M, Kurtic E, Funk A, Barker E, Hepple M & Gaizauskas R (2016) . Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference (pp 61-69), 2016 - 2016. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barrón-Cedeño A, Paramita ML, Clough P & Rosso P (2014) (pp 424-429) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gaizauskas R, Barker E, Paramita ML & Aker A (2014) . Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Terminology (Computerm) (pp 11-21), August 2014 - August 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aker A, Paramita M & Gaizauskas R (2013) Extracting bilingual terminologies from comparable corpora. ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 1 (pp 402-411) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita M, Clough P, Aker A & Gaizauskas R (2012) Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles. LREC 2012 (pp 790-797). Istanbul, Turkey, 23 May 2012 - 23 May 2012. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Skadina I, Aker A, Mastropavlos N, Su F, Tufis D, Verlic M, Vasiljevs A, Babych B, Clough P, Gaizauskas R , Glaros N et al (2012) Collecting and using comparable corpora for statistical machine translation. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 (pp 438-445) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gäde M, Ferro N & Paramita ML (2011) CHiC 2011 - Cultural heritage in CLEF: From use cases to evaluation in practice for multilingual information access to cultural heritage. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1177 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Sanderson M & Clough P (2010) . Multilingual Information Access Evaluation II. Multimedia Experiments, Vol. 6242 (pp 45-59). Corfu, Greece, 30 September 2009 - 30 September 2009. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sanderson M, Paramita ML, Clough P & Kanoulas E (2010) . Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp 555-562). Geneva, Switzerland, 19 July 2010 - 19 July 2010. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Paramita ML, Tang J & Sanderson M (2009) (pp 603-610) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Clough P, Sanderson M, Abouammoh M, Navarro S & Paramita ML (2009) . Proceedings of the 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 734-735). Boston, Massachusetts, 19 July 2009 - 19 July 2009. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Adriani M & Paramita ML (2007) . Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval, Vol. 68 (pp 19-24) RIS download Bibtex download

Website content

  • Paramita ML Home Page. RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

  • Clough P, Hill T, Paramita M & Goodale P . RIS download Bibtex download
Research group

I am part of the Information Retrieval research group.

Teaching activities

INF113 - Data-Driven Organisations

INF214 - Using Data for Responsible Decision Making

INF6027 - Introduction to Data Science

INF6060 - Information Retrieval: Search Engines and Digital Libraries

Professional activities and memberships
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Committee Member of the British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG)
  • Co-lead of the Shef.AI Interest Group: "Revolutionising data-driven research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences"