I'm currently pursuing a PhD in Natural Language Processing, focusing on the nature of Political Discourse across various mediums like news, parliamentary proceedings, historical archives, social media, and surveys. I'm interested in exploring the boundaries of language and vision.

🌍 Current Location (or whenever this was last updated): Ljubljana, Slovenia

🔭 Currently working on:

• Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Kliping
• Automatic generation and evaluation of Debates
• Visual Dialog for Chess (Chessable Project Proposal)

🔌 Sidelined:

• Seq2seq model for automatic timeline summarization
• Graph neural networks for Visual Dialog

💬 Ask me about:

• LLMs
• Discourse Analysis
• Visualizations

📫 How to reach me:

• Email
• LinkedIn

⚡ Fun fact: I'm working on a model that can dish insults like Monty Python. Here's my favourite: "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal-food-trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries."

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1. Analysing Right and Far-Right Twitter Discourse:
   • Topic Analysis, Persuasion Detection, and Toxicity Analysis
   • Paper accepted for JADT2024

2. Master's Thesis - Multimodal Feature Fusion via Graph Neural Networks for Visual Dialog:

   • Baseline: Reimplementation of the GoG model by Chen et al. (2021)
   • Novel Multimodal Fusion Graph Framework using Implicit Relation-Awareness
   • Working on Panoptic Segmentation, caption augmentation, and Transformer based approaches

3. Neural Belief Tracker - Dialog Modeling:

   • Implementation of a Neural Belief State Tracker based on Nikola Mrkšić and Ivan Vulić
   • Context Modeling of System Output with User Utterances to improve Candidate Pairs

4. BioMedScribe:

   • Projects centred around the statistical analysis of medical data

5. Emotion Analysis and Semantic Role Labeling:

   • Classification of Ekman's Emotions across multiple datasets using LSTM, BERT
   • Human and automatic annotations of emotion role labels

• System Analyst and Full-Stack Developer (Working Student) at IMS, Universität Stuttgart
• Systems Engineer Trainee (Employee) at Infosys Limited

• Learning to play chess and guitar. Soon, I hope to do both simultaneously and become unstoppable!!
• Listening to audiobooks while running or cooking
• Also, my brain makes way too many dad jokes. I'm sorry about this feature.