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The challenge of automatic detection of toxic comments online has been the subject of a lot of research recently, but the focus has been mostly on detecting it in individual messages after they have been posted. Some authors have tried to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-20 Éloi Brassard-Gourdeau , Richard Khoury

Media bias can significantly impact the formation and development of opinions and sentiments in a population. It is thus important to study the emergence and development of partisan media and political polarization. However, it is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-05 Zehan Chao , Denali Molitor , Deanna Needell , Mason A. Porter

In recent years, due to the booming development of online social networks, fake news for various commercial and political purposes has been appearing in large numbers and widespread in the online world. With deceptive words, online social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Jiawei Zhang , Bowen Dong , Philip S. Yu

Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporter accounts and fake news writers have the capability of spreading disinformation to viral proportions. Early detection of PSM accounts is crucial as they are likely to be key…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Elham Shaabani , Ashkan Sadeghi-Mobarakeh , Hamidreza Alvari , Paulo Shakarian

As a leading online platform with a vast global audience, YouTube's extensive reach also makes it susceptible to hosting harmful content, including disinformation and conspiracy theories. This study explores the use of open-weight Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Leonardo La Rocca , Francesco Corso , Francesco Pierri

With the rapid development of social media such as Twitter and Weibo, detecting keywords from a huge volume of text data streams in real-time has become a critical problem. The keyword detection problem aims at searching important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yifei Yue

Social media has become an important source for understanding mental health, providing researchers with a way to detect conditions like depression from user-generated posts. This tutorial provides practical guidance to address common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yeyubei Zhang , Zhongyan Wang , Zhanyi Ding , Yexin Tian , Jianglai Dai , Xiaorui Shen , Yunchong Liu , Yuchen Cao

Sarcasm detection is a key task for many natural language processing tasks. In sentiment analysis, for example, sarcasm can flip the polarity of an "apparently positive" sentence and, hence, negatively affect polarity detection performance.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Devamanyu Hazarika , Prateek Vij

The detection of toxic language in the Arabic language has emerged as an active area of research in recent years, and reviewing the existing datasets employed for training the developed solutions has become a pressing need. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imene Bensalem , Paolo Rosso , Hanane Zitouni

The literature in automated sarcasm detection has mainly focused on lexical, syntactic and semantic-level analysis of text. However, a sarcastic sentence can be expressed with contextual presumptions, background and commonsense knowledge.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Devamanyu Hazarika , Soujanya Poria , Sruthi Gorantla , Erik Cambria , Roger Zimmermann , Rada Mihalcea

Recently efforts have been made by social media platforms as well as researchers to detect hateful or toxic language using large language models. However, none of these works aim to use explanation, additional context and victim community…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sarthak Roy , Ashish Harshavardhan , Animesh Mukherjee , Punyajoy Saha

Online shopping stores have grown steadily over the past few years. Due to the massive growth of these businesses, the detection of fake reviews has attracted attention. Fake reviews are seriously trying to mislead customers and thereby…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Abrar Qadir Mir , Furqan Yaqub Khan , Mohammad Ahsan Chishti

As toxic language becomes nearly pervasive online, there has been increasing interest in leveraging the advancements in natural language processing (NLP), from very large transformer models to automatically detecting and removing toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Austin P. Wright , Omar Shaikh , Haekyu Park , Will Epperson , Muhammed Ahmed , Stephane Pinel , Diyi Yang , Duen Horng Chau

The proliferation of fake news, i.e., news intentionally spread for misinformation, poses a threat to individuals and society. Despite various fact-checking websites such as PolitiFact, robust detection techniques are required to deal with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Bimal Bhattarai , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Lei Jiao

Internet memes, channels for humor, social commentary, and cultural expression, are increasingly used to spread toxic messages. Studies on the computational analyses of toxic memes have significantly grown over the past five years, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani , Erik Tjong Kim Sang , Davide Ceolin

Hate speech is a widespread and harmful form of online discourse, encompassing slurs and defamatory posts that can have serious social, psychological, and sometimes physical impacts on targeted individuals and communities. As social media…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Santosh Chapagain , Shah Muhammad Hamdi , Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi

Sarcasm detection identifies natural language expressions whose intended meaning is different from what is implied by its surface meaning. It finds applications in many NLP tasks such as opinion mining, sentiment analysis, etc. Today,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Sundesh Gupta , Aditya Shah , Miten Shah , Laribok Syiemlieh , Chandresh Maurya

A series of datasets and models have been proposed for summaries generated for well-formatted documents such as news articles. Dialogue summaries, however, have been under explored. In this paper, we present the first dataset with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Rongxin Zhu , Jianzhong Qi , Jey Han Lau

Toxic online speech has become a crucial problem nowadays due to an exponential increase in the use of internet by people from different cultures and educational backgrounds. Differentiating if a text message belongs to hate speech and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Bencheng Wei , Jason Li , Ajay Gupta , Hafiza Umair , Atsu Vovor , Natalie Durzynski

Misinformation is becoming increasingly prevalent on social media and in news articles. It has become so widespread that we require algorithmic assistance utilising machine learning to detect such content. Training these machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dan Saattrup Nielsen , Ryan McConville