Diana Ramirez Cifuentes
- I am a Senior Data Science Consultant and Researcher with experience across both academia and industry.
- My areas of expertise include:
- Social computing
- Natural language processing (NLP)
- Generative AI for textual data
- Information retrieval systems
- I apply these methods to mental health research and broader sociotechnical challenges for social good.
- I investigate online behaviours and linguistic patterns to detect indicators of psychological distress using large-scale social media data.
- My research also explores:
- Disinformation
- Social engineering detection
- Hate speech analysis
- I design data-driven methods to detect and mitigate online risks, including harmful content amplified by social-media algorithms.
- I hold a PhD in Computer Science, an MSc in Data and Connected Systems, and an Engineering degree in Information Systems and Computer Science.
Selected Publications
Detection of suicidal ideation on social media: multimodal, relational, and behavioral analysis
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates, J Puntí, P Medina-Bravo, ...
JMIR — Cited by 148 — 2020
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/17758
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates, J Puntí, P Medina-Bravo, ...
JMIR — Cited by 148 — 2020
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/17758
Early risk detection of anorexia on social media
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, M Mayans, A Freire
International Conference on Internet Science — Cited by 41 — 2018
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D Ramírez-Cifuentes, M Mayans, A Freire
International Conference on Internet Science — Cited by 41 — 2018
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Enhanced word embedding variations for the detection of substance abuse and mental health issues on social media writings
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, R Baeza-Yates, A Freire
IEEE Access — Cited by 26 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3068333
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, R Baeza-Yates, A Freire
IEEE Access — Cited by 26 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3068333
Gender bias when using artificial intelligence to assess anorexia nervosa on social media: data-driven study
D Solans Noguero, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, EA Ríssola, A Freire
JMIR — Cited by 23 — 2023
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/45184
D Solans Noguero, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, EA Ríssola, A Freire
JMIR — Cited by 23 — 2023
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/45184
Characterization of anorexia nervosa on social media: textual, visual, relational, behavioral, and demographical analysis
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates, N Sanz Lamora, A Álvarez, ...
JMIR — Cited by 23 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/25925
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates, N Sanz Lamora, A Álvarez, ...
JMIR — Cited by 23 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.2196/25925
UPF’s Participation at the CLEF eRisk 2018: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire
CEUR Workshop Proceedings — Cited by 22 — 2018
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D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire
CEUR Workshop Proceedings — Cited by 22 — 2018
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Suicide risk assessment on social media: USi-UPF at the CLPsych 2019 shared task
E Ríssola, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, F Crestani
CLPsych Workshop — Cited by 9 — 2019
📄 ACL Anthology
E Ríssola, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, A Freire, F Crestani
CLPsych Workshop — Cited by 9 — 2019
📄 ACL Anthology
An uncertainty thermometer to measure the macroeconomic-financial risk in South American countries
M Guachamín, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, O Delgado
Journal of International Development — Cited by 7 — 2020
🔗 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3480
M Guachamín, D Ramírez-Cifuentes, O Delgado
Journal of International Development — Cited by 7 — 2020
🔗 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3480
Enhanced word embeddings for anorexia nervosa detection on social media
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates
IDA Conference — Cited by 6 — 2020
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D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates
IDA Conference — Cited by 6 — 2020
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Improving exploratory information retrieval for neophytes: machine learning approach with feature analysis
B Audeh, M Beigbeder, C Largeron, D Ramírez-Cifuentes
ACM SIGAPP Review — Cited by 2 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.1145/3434237.3434239
B Audeh, M Beigbeder, C Largeron, D Ramírez-Cifuentes
ACM SIGAPP Review — Cited by 2 — 2021
🔗 DOI: 10.1145/3434237.3434239
Enhancing contact recommendation in social platforms through mental health awareness: exploring anorexia nervosa as a case study
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, R Baeza-Yates, M Lozano, A Freire
PLOS ONE — Cited by 1 — 2025
🔗 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312766
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, R Baeza-Yates, M Lozano, A Freire
PLOS ONE — Cited by 1 — 2025
🔗 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312766
A data-driven framework for mental health states assessment in social platforms
D Ramírez-Cifuentes
PhD Thesis — Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Cited by 1 — 2022
D Ramírez-Cifuentes
PhD Thesis — Universitat Pompeu Fabra — Cited by 1 — 2022
Evaluating the usefulness of citation graph and document metadata in scientific document recommendation for neophytes
B Audeh, M Beigbeder, C Largeron, D Ramirez-Cifuentes
ACM SAC — Cited by 1 — 2020
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B Audeh, M Beigbeder, C Largeron, D Ramirez-Cifuentes
ACM SAC — Cited by 1 — 2020
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Enhanced word embeddings for anorexia nervosa detection on social media
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates
Springer — Cited by 1 — 2020
(Publisher link available upon request)
D Ramírez-Cifuentes, C Largeron, J Tissier, A Freire, R Baeza-Yates
Springer — Cited by 1 — 2020
(Publisher link available upon request)