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One of the main challenges online social systems face is the prevalence of antisocial behavior, such as harassment and personal attacks. In this work, we introduce the task of predicting from the very start of a conversation whether it will…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Justine Zhang , Jonathan P. Chang , Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil , Lucas Dixon , Yiqing Hua , Nithum Thain , Dario Taraborelli

Social media platforms like Facebook and Reddit host thousands of user-governed online communities. These platforms sanction communities that frequently violate platform policies; however, public perceptions of such sanctions remain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shagun Jhaver

Content moderation is the process of flagging content based on pre-defined platform rules. There has been a growing need for AI moderators to safeguard users as well as protect the mental health of human moderators from traumatic content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Meng Ye , Karan Sikka , Katherine Atwell , Sabit Hassan , Ajay Divakaran , Malihe Alikhani

The proliferation of abusive language in online communications has posed significant risks to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. The growing concern regarding online abuse and its consequences necessitates methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Samaneh Hosseini Moghaddam , Kelly Lyons , Cheryl Regehr , Vivek Goel , Kaitlyn Regehr

A widespread moderation strategy by online news platforms is to feature what the platform deems high quality comments, usually called editor picks or featured comments. In this paper, we compare online discussions of news articles in which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Cedric Waterschoot , Ernst van den Hemel , Antal van den Bosch

With the spread of online social networks, it is more and more difficult to monitor all the user-generated content. Automating the moderation process of the inappropriate exchange content on Internet has thus become a priority task. Methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Noé Cecillon , Vincent Labatut , Richard Dufour , Georges Linares

Online community moderators often rely on social signals such as whether or not a user has an account or a profile page as clues that users may cause problems. Reliance on these clues can lead to "overprofiling'' bias when moderators focus…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nathan TeBlunthuis , Benjamin Mako Hill , Aaron Halfaker

Current content moderation follows a reactive, trial-and-error approach, where interventions are applied and their effects are only measured post-hoc. In contrast, we introduce a proactive, predictive approach that enables moderators to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Benedetta Tessa , Lorenzo Cima , Amaury Trujillo , Marco Avvenuti , Stefano Cresci

Internet users highly rely on and trust web search engines, such as Google, to find relevant information online. However, scholars have documented numerous biases and inaccuracies in search outputs. To improve the quality of search results,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Aleksandra Urman , Aniko Hannak , Mykola Makhortykh

Reddit administrators have generally struggled to prevent or contain such discourse for several reasons including: (1) the inability for a handful of human administrators to track and react to millions of posts and comments per day and (2)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hussam Habib , Maaz Bin Musa , Fareed Zaffar , Rishab Nithyanand

Offensive and abusive language is a pressing problem on social media platforms. In this work, we propose a method for transforming offensive comments, statements containing profanity or offensive language, into non-offensive ones. We design…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Minh Tran , Yipeng Zhang , Mohammad Soleymani

The datasets most widely used for abusive language detection contain lists of messages, usually tweets, that have been manually judged as abusive or not by one or more annotators, with the annotation performed at message level. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Stefano Menini , Alessio Palmero Aprosio , Sara Tonelli

Growing amount of comments make online discussions difficult to moderate by human moderators only. Antisocial behavior is a common occurrence that often discourages other users from participating in discussion. We propose a neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Andrej Švec , Matúš Pikuliak , Marián Šimko , Mária Bieliková

The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audio content, but typically in isolation. Yet, harmful content…

Detection of offensive language in social media is one of the key challenges for social media. Researchers have proposed many advanced methods to accomplish this task. In this report, we try to use the learnings from their approach and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Nikhil Chilwant , Syed Taqi Abbas Rizvi , Hassan Soliman

The use of short text messages in social media and instant messaging has become a popular communication channel during the last years. This rising popularity has caused an increment in messaging threats such as spam, phishing or malware as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Alejandro Mosquera , Lamine Aouad , Slawomir Grzonkowski , Dylan Morss

The abstract outlines the problem of toxic comments on social media platforms, where individuals use disrespectful, abusive, and unreasonable language that can drive users away from discussions. This behavior is referred to as anti-social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 K. Poojitha , A. Sai Charish , M. Arun Kuamr Reddy , S. Ayyasamy

Moderation of reader comments is a significant problem for online news platforms. Here, we experiment with models for automatic moderation, using a dataset of comments from a popular Croatian newspaper. Our analysis shows that while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Elaine Zosa , Ravi Shekhar , Mladen Karan , Matthew Purver

Roblox is among the most popular online gaming platforms, used by hundreds of millions of users every day. A substantial portion of these users are underage, who are at a greater risk, where abusive users may utilize Roblox's real-time chat…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Priya Kaushik , Sonja Brown , Rakibul Hasan , Sazzadur Rahaman

With the increasing growth of social media, people have started relying heavily on the information shared therein to form opinions and make decisions. While such a reliance is motivation for a variety of parties to promote information, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Katia Sycara