Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language [PDF]
International Conference on Web and Social Media, 2017 A key challenge for automatic hate-speech detection on social media is the separation of hate speech from other instances of offensive language. Lexical detection methods tend to have low precision because they classify all messages containing particular
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Taking North American White Supremacist Groups Seriously: The Scope and the Challenge of Hate Speech on the Internet [PDF]
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018 This article aims to address two questions: how does hate speech manifest on North American white supremacist websites; and is there a connection between online hate speech and hate crime? Firstly, hate speech is defined and the research methodology upon
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
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Predicting the victims of hate speech on microblogging platforms [PDF]
HeliyonHate speech constitutes a major problem on microblogging platforms, with automatic detection being a growing research area. Most existing works focus on analyzing the content of social media posts.
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A comparative study of the characteristics of hate speech propagators and their behaviours over Twitter social media platform [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 The internet and social media have facilitated diverse communication genres, enabling widespread and rapid opinions-sharing. However, hate speech imposes a contemporary challenge on individuals and communities, given the user anonymity, freedom, and ...
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Hate speech detection in the Arabic language: corpus design, construction, and evaluation. [PDF]
Front Artif IntellHate Speech Detection in Arabic presents a multifaceted challenge due to the broad and diverse linguistic terrain. With its multiple dialects and rich cultural subtleties, Arabic requires particular measures to address hate speech online successfully. To
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The Polarizing Impact of Political Disinformation and Hate Speech: A Cross-country Configural Narrative. [PDF]
Inf Syst Front, 2023 Information and communication technologies hold immense potential to enhance our lives and societal well-being. However, digital spaces have also emerged as a fertile ground for fake news campaigns and hate speech, aggravating polarization and posing a ...
Vasist PN, Chatterjee D, Krishnan S.
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Mapping the scientific knowledge and approaches to defining and measuring hate crime, hate speech, and hate incidents: A systematic review. [PDF]
Campbell Syst RevBackground The difficulties in defining hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech, and in finding a common conceptual basis constitute a key barrier toward operationalisation in research, policy and programming. Definitions disagree about issues such as
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Fine-Grained Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Using Explainable AI and Transformers
IEEE AccessThe detection of hate speech on online platforms is essential for maintaining safe and inclusive digital environments. Although significant progress has been made in binary classification for hate speech detection, challenges persist in multilingual and ...
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Hate speech comprises any form of hateful or contemptuous expression that attacks, degrades, or vilifies people based on their social identities. This Element focuses on hate speech targeting social identities that are devalued by a society's dominant groups, and that is likely to evoke, promote, or legitimize harms such violence, discrimination, and ...
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ToxiGen: A Large-Scale Machine-Generated Dataset for Adversarial and Implicit Hate Speech Detection [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Toxic language detection systems often falsely flag text that contains minority group mentions as toxic, as those groups are often the targets of online hate.
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