While favouring communications and easing information sharing, Social Network Sites are also used to launch harmful campaigns against specific groups and individuals. Cyberbullism, incitement to self-harm practices, sexual predation are just some of …
Some users of social media are spreading racist, sexist, and otherwise hateful content. For the purpose of training a hate speech detection system, the reliability of the annotations is crucial, but there is no universally agreed-upon definition. We …
To address various limitations of supervised hate speech classification methods includ- ing corpus bias and huge cost of annota- tion, we propose a weakly supervised two- path bootstrapping approach for an online hate speech detection model …
The paper introduces a deep learning-based Twitter hate-speech text classification system. The classifier assigns each tweet to one of four predefined categories: racism, sexism, both (racism and sexism) and non-hate-speech. Four Convolutional Neural …
Anti-Muslim hate crime is usually viewed in the prism of physical attacks; however, it also occurs in a cyber context, and this reality has considerable consequences for victims. In seeking to help improve our understanding of anti-Muslim hate crime, …
Here, we respond to three peer commentaries on our paper,A hypothetical neurological association between dehumanization and human rights abuses. 1 In that paper, we hypothesized that dehumanizing implicit biases dampen the response of neural
1Data set available at http://github.com/zeerakw/hatespeech 138 Page 2. 2 Data Waseem and Hovy (2016) may suffer from personal bias, as the only the authors an- notated, and only the annotations positive for hate speech were reviewed by one other …
Causes and motivations of Equality and Human Rights Commission Research report 102 Mark A. Walters and Rupert Brown with Susann Wiedlitzka, University of Sussex hate crime Page 2. Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2918883 Causes …
Hate speech in the form of racist and sexist remarks are a common occurrence on social media. For that reason, many social media services address the problem of identifying hate speech, but the definition of hate speech varies markedly and is largely …
Objectives. To examine whether indicators of community-and state-level lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality are associated with transgender veterans mental health. Methods. We extracted Veterans Administration data for patients who were …