Paulina Garcia Corral is a PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies. She studies sociology and political communication to measure leadership engagement with the liberal script and expert rhetoric surrounding decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, using computational methods. Previously, she worked at the London School of Economics as a Research Assistant for the Media and Communication Department as well as for the Department of Methodology. She has engaged with non-governmental organisations as a data scientist to produce evidence based research for policy planning in Mexico. Paulina holds an MSc in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and a BA in Sociology from Universidad de Monterrey.
Main supervisor: Prof. Slava Jankin
Research/Policy Publications
Paulina Garcia Corral, Avishai Green, Hendrik Meyer, Anke Stoll, Xiaoyue Yan, and Myrthe Reuver (2024). . In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences: Long and short papers, pages 45–60, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics
Paulina Garcia Corral, Hanna Bechara, Ran Zhang, and Slava Jankin (2024). PolitiCause: An Annotation Scheme and Corpus for Causality in Political Texts. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 12836–12845, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
