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Online social platforms are beset with hateful speech - content that expresses hatred for a person or group of people. Such content can frighten, intimidate, or silence platform users, and some of it can inspire other users to commit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Haji Mohammad Saleem , Kelly P Dillon , Susan Benesch , Derek Ruths

Combating online hate speech in multilingual settings requires approaches that go beyond English-centric models and capture the cultural and linguistic diversity of global online discourse. This paper presents a comprehensive survey and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zahra Safdari Fesaghandis , Suman Kalyan Maity

The struggle of social media platforms to moderate content in a timely manner, encourages users to abuse such platforms to spread vulgar or abusive language, which, when performed repeatedly becomes cyberbullying a social problem taking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Tanjim Mahmud , Michal Ptaszynski , Juuso Eronen , Fumito Masui

Hate speech is one type of harmful online content which directly attacks or promotes hate towards a group or an individual member based on their actual or perceived aspects of identity, such as ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Wenjie Yin , Arkaitz Zubiaga

The phenomenal growth on the internet has helped in empowering individual's expressions, but the misuse of freedom of expression has also led to the increase of various cyber crimes and anti-social activities. Hate speech is one such issue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Prashant Kapil , Asif Ekbal , Dipankar Das

Technological advancements have resulted in an exponential increase in the use of online social networks (OSNs) worldwide. While online social networks provide a great communication medium, they also increase the user's exposure to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sylvia W Azumah , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

In recent years, abusive behavior has become a serious issue in online social networks. In this paper, we present a new corpus from a semi-anonymous social media platform, which contains the instances of offensive and neutral classes. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Niloofar Safi Samghabadi , Afsheen Hatami , Mahsa Shafaei , Sudipta Kar , Thamar Solorio

Social media communication has become a significant part of daily activity in modern societies. For this reason, ensuring safety in social media platforms is a necessity. Use of dangerous language such as physical threats in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Ali Alshehri , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Abuse on the Internet represents an important societal problem of our time. Millions of Internet users face harassment, racism, personal attacks, and other types of abuse on online platforms. The psychological effects of such abuse on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Text classification is an important topic in the field of natural language processing. It has been preliminarily applied in information retrieval, digital library, automatic abstracting, text filtering, word semantic discrimination and many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hao Li , Brandon Bennett

Existing cyberbullying detection benchmarks were organized by the polarity of speech, such as "offensive" and "non-offensive", which were essentially hate speech detection. However, in the real world, cyberbullying often attracted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yi Zhu , Xin Zou , Xindong Wu

Offensive language detection is an important task for filtering out abusive expressions and improving online user experiences. However, malicious users often attempt to avoid filtering systems through the involvement of textual noises. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Seunguk Yu , Juhwan Choi , Youngbin Kim

The exponential increase in the use of the Internet and social media over the last two decades has changed human interaction. This has led to many positive outcomes, but at the same time it has brought risks and harms. While the volume of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Neeraj Vashistha , Arkaitz Zubiaga , Shanky Sharma

Cyberbullying has been a significant challenge in the digital era world, given the huge number of people, especially adolescents, who use social media platforms to communicate and share information. Some individuals exploit these platforms…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Adamu Gaston Philipo , Doreen Sebastian Sarwatt , Jianguo Ding , Mahmoud Daneshmand , Huansheng Ning

The widespread presence of hateful languages on social media has resulted in adverse effects on societal well-being. As a result, addressing this issue with high priority has become very important. Hate speech or offensive languages exist…

Social media platforms are deploying machine learning based offensive language classification systems to combat hateful, racist, and other forms of offensive speech at scale. However, despite their real-world deployment, we do not yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jonathan Rusert , Zubair Shafiq , Padmini Srinivasan

The pervasiveness of abusive content on the internet can lead to severe psychological and physical harm. Significant effort in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research has been devoted to addressing this problem through abusive content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Svetlana Kiritchenko , Isar Nejadgholi , Kathleen C. Fraser

Cyberbullying is of extreme prevalence today. Online-hate comments, toxicity, cyberbullying amongst children and other vulnerable groups are only growing over online classes, and increased access to social platforms, especially post…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Bhumika Bhatia , Anuj Verma , Anjum , Rahul Katarya

Risk perception is subjective, and youth's understanding of toxic content differs from that of adults. Although previous research has conducted extensive studies on toxicity detection in social media, the investigation of youth's unique…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yaqiong Li , Peng Zhang , Lin Wang , Hansu Gu , Siyuan Qiao , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

The proliferation of hate speech has caused significant harm to society. The intensity and directionality of hate are closely tied to the target and argument it is associated with. However, research on hate speech detection in Chinese has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zewen Bai , Shengdi Yin , Junyu Lu , Jingjie Zeng , Haohao Zhu , Yuanyuan Sun , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin