Cynthia Van Hee is a research assistant at Ghent University, working for the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication as part of LT3 (Language and Translation Technology Team). She obtained a Master's degree in Multilingual Communication (French, Spanish, Dutch) at Hogeschool Gent in 2013. In the framework of the AMiCA project (Automatic Monitoring for Cyberspace Applications - http://www.amicaproject.be), she is currently working as a PhD student at the LT3 research group. Her research interests include cyberbullying detection, sentiment analysis and irony recognition in social media data.