Interview with Dr Sujatha Das Gollapalli on Misinformation Research

This document is an interview with Dr. Sujatha Das Gollapalli, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Data Science, NUS. The interview discusses her current research in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), focusing on combating misinformation through the development of chatbots. Dr. Gollapalli highlights the pressing issue of health-related misinformation, particularly during the pandemic, and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary research to address this challenge. The document details the creation of CW-CURE, a novel dataset of tweets related to various medical conditions, and the challenges faced in filtering relevant tweets. It also discusses the importance of claim type information in improving the detection of checkworthiness in claims. Dr. Gollapalli expresses her motivation to design AI and NLP applications that benefit society by ensuring the well-being of online consumers and educating them about misinformation.