Piek Vossen is Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is co-founder and president of the Global Wordnet Association and received the Dutch Spinoza-prize in 2013 for his research. He used this prize for projects on language understanding, including mining perspectives in debates like on vaccination. Antske Fokkens is Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and Associate Professor at the Applied Geometric Algorithms group at the Technical University Eindhoven. Since 2021, she has acted as University Research Chair on methodological aspects of computational linguistics, in particular when used in an interdisciplinary setting.
'Misinformation and disinformation on the web are problems we face as a society, and this book is for anyone looking for hope for the future! Well-regarded authors in various disciplines contribute enjoyable and informed chapters on theoretical accounts of perspectives and how they work, practical methods for discovering and measuring bias, and computational procedures for identifying and fixing perspectives at web scale with consistent and reliable results.' Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University