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In today's digital world, social media plays a significant role in facilitating communication and content sharing. However, the exponential rise in user-generated content has led to challenges in maintaining a respectful online environment.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Mohammad Dehghani

We present a holistic approach to building a robust and useful natural language classification system for real-world content moderation. The success of such a system relies on a chain of carefully designed and executed steps, including the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Todor Markov , Chong Zhang , Sandhini Agarwal , Tyna Eloundou , Teddy Lee , Steven Adler , Angela Jiang , Lilian Weng

Recent multi-media data such as images and videos have been rapidly spread out on various online services such as social network services (SNS). With the explosive growth of online media services, the number of image content that may harm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Eungyeom Ha , Heemook Kim , Sung Chul Hong , Dongbin Na

The spread of toxic content online is an important problem that has adverse effects on user experience online and in our society at large. Motivated by the importance and impact of the problem, research focuses on developing solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xinlei He , Savvas Zannettou , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly used for tasks where detecting multimodal harmful content is crucial, such as online content moderation. However, real-world harmful content is often camouflaged, relying on nuanced…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yanhui Li , Qi Zhou , Zhihong Xu , Huizhong Guo , Wenhai Wang , Dongxia Wang

In recent years, cognitive and mental health (CMH) disorders have increasingly become an important challenge for global public health, especially the suicide problem caused by multiple factors such as social competition, economic pressure…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Shouwen Zheng , Yingzhi Tao , Taiqi Zhou

The increasing scale and complexity of online platforms raises critical policy questions around harmful content, digital well-being, and user autonomy. Traditional content moderation systems rely on centralised, top-down rules, often…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ewelina Gajewska , Michal Wawer , Katarzyna Budzynska , Jaroslaw A. Chudziak

Suicide is a critical issue in modern society. Early detection and prevention of suicide attempts should be addressed to save people's life. Current suicidal ideation detection methods include clinical methods based on the interaction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Shaoxiong Ji , Shirui Pan , Xue Li , Erik Cambria , Guodong Long , Zi Huang

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of leveraging large language models (LLMs) to automate or otherwise assist human raters with identifying harmful content including hate speech, harassment, violent extremism, and election…

Large language models (LLMs) have become integral to various real-world applications, leveraging massive, web-sourced datasets like Common Crawl, C4, and FineWeb for pretraining. While these datasets provide linguistic data essential for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Sai Krishna Mendu , Harish Yenala , Aditi Gulati , Shanu Kumar , Parag Agrawal

Suicide is an important but often misunderstood problem, one that researchers are now seeking to better understand through social media. Due in large part to the fuzzy nature of what constitutes suicidal risks, most supervised approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Tong Liu , Qijin Cheng , Christopher M. Homan , Vincent M. B. Silenzio

Since the advent of online social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, useful health-related studies have been conducted using the information posted by online participants. Personal health-related issues such as mental health,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Muhammad Abubakar Alhassan , Isa Inuwa-Dutse , Bello Shehu Bello , Diane Pennington

Mental health is a critical issue in modern society, and mental disorders could sometimes turn to suicidal ideation without effective treatment. Early detection of mental disorders and suicidal ideation from social content provides a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Shaoxiong Ji , Xue Li , Zi Huang , Erik Cambria

Among the various modes of communication in social media, the use of Internet memes has emerged as a powerful means to convey political, psychological, and socio-cultural opinions. Although memes are typically humorous in nature, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shraman Pramanick , Dimitar Dimitrov , Rituparna Mukherjee , Shivam Sharma , Md. Shad Akhtar , Preslav Nakov , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Suicide remains a leading cause of death in Western countries. As social media becomes central to daily life, digital footprints offer valuable insight into suicidal behavior. Focusing on individuals who attempted suicide while uploading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Ilanit Sobol , Shir Lissak , Refael Tikochinski , Tal Nakash , Anat Brunstein Klomek , Eyal Fruchter , Roi Reichart

The prevalence of short form video platforms, combined with the ineffectiveness of age verification mechanisms, raises concerns about the potential harms facing children and teenagers in an algorithm-moderated online environment. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haoning Xue , Brian Nishimine , Martin Hilbert , Drew Cingel , Samantha Vigil , Jane Shawcroft , Arti Thakur , Zubair Shafiq , Jingwen Zhang

Malicious content generated by large language models (LLMs) can pose varying degrees of harm. Although existing LLM-based moderators can detect harmful content, they struggle to assess risk levels and may miss lower-risk outputs. Accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Fan Yin , Philippe Laban , Xiangyu Peng , Yilun Zhou , Yixin Mao , Vaibhav Vats , Linnea Ross , Divyansh Agarwal , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have intensified the need to understand and reliably curb their harmful behaviours. We introduce a multidimensional framework for probing and steering harmful content in model internals. For…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 McNair Shah , Saleena Angeline , Adhitya Rajendra Kumar , Naitik Chheda , Kevin Zhu , Vasu Sharma , Sean O'Brien , Will Cai

On social media, users often express their personal feelings, which may exhibit cognitive distortions or even suicidal tendencies on certain specific topics. Early recognition of these signs is critical for effective psychological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Hongzhi Qi , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Wei Zhai , Dan Luo , Shuo Liu , Yi Jing Yu , Fan Wang , Huijing Zou , Bing Xiang Yang , Guanghui Fu

Detecting toxic content using language models is important but challenging. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in understanding Chinese, recent studies show that simple character substitutions in toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shujian Yang , Shiyao Cui , Chuanrui Hu , Haicheng Wang , Tianwei Zhang , Minlie Huang , Jialiang Lu , Han Qiu