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In our increasingly interconnected digital world, social media platforms have emerged as powerful channels for the dissemination of hate speech and offensive content. This work delves into the domain of hate speech detection, placing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Ananya Joshi , Raviraj Joshi

In this work, abusive language detection in online content is performed using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network (BiRNN) method. Here the main objective is to focus on various forms of abusive behaviors on Twitter and to detect whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Dincy Davis , Reena Murali , Remesh Babu

Online discussions, panels, talk page edits, etc., often contain harmful conversational content i.e., hate speech, death threats and offensive language, especially towards certain demographic groups. For example, individuals who identify as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jamell Dacon , Harry Shomer , Shaylynn Crum-Dacon , Jiliang Tang

The detection of offensive, hateful and profane language has become a critical challenge since many users in social networks are exposed to cyberbullying activities on a daily basis. In this paper, we present an analysis of combining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Sherzod Hakimov , Ralph Ewerth

The dramatic increase in the use of social media platforms for information sharing has also fueled a steep growth in online abuse. A simple yet effective way of abusing individuals or communities is by creating memes, which often integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Mithun Das , Animesh Mukherjee

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

In emotion recognition from speech, a key challenge lies in identifying speech signal segments that carry the most relevant acoustic variations for discerning specific emotions. Traditional approaches compute functionals for features such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sofoklis Kakouros

Spoken content, such as online videos and podcasts, often spans multiple topics, which makes automatic topic segmentation essential for user navigation and downstream applications. However, current methods do not fully leverage acoustic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Steffen Freisinger , Philipp Seeberger , Tobias Bocklet , Korbinian Riedhammer

The extensive rise in consumption of online social media (OSMs) by a large number of people poses a critical problem of curbing the spread of hateful content on these platforms. With the growing usage of OSMs in multiple languages, the task…

Due to the broad range of social media platforms, the requirements of abusive language detection systems are varied and ever-changing. Already a large set of annotated corpora with different properties and label sets were created, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Viktor Hangya , Alexander Fraser

Data-driven analysis and detection of abusive online content covers many different tasks, phenomena, contexts, and methodologies. This paper systematically reviews abusive language dataset creation and content in conjunction with an open…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Bertie Vidgen , Leon Derczynski

Reducing hateful and offensive content in online social media pose a dual problem for the moderators. On the one hand, rigid censorship on social media cannot be imposed. On the other, the free flow of such content cannot be allowed. Hence,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Punyajoy Saha , Binny Mathew , Pawan Goyal , Animesh Mukherjee

Abuse on the Internet represents a significant societal problem of our time. Previous research on automated abusive language detection in Twitter has shown that community-based profiling of users is a promising technique for this task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pushkar Mishra , Marco Del Tredici , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Domestic Violence against women is now recognized to be a serious and widespread problem worldwide. Domestic Violence and Abuse is at the root of so many issues in society and considered as the societal tabooed topic. Fortunately, with the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Sudha Subramani , Huy Quan Vu , Hua Wang

Prosodic cues in conversational speech aid listeners in discerning a message. We investigate whether acoustic cues in spoken dialogue can be used to identify the importance of individual words to the meaning of a conversation turn.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Sushant Kafle , Cecilia O. Alm , Matt Huenerfauth

Online abusive language detection (ALD) has become a societal issue of increasing importance in recent years. Several previous works in online ALD focused on solving a single abusive language problem in a single domain, like Twitter, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Kunze Wang , Dong Lu , Soyeon Caren Han , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon

This paper is a contribution to the Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC) 2021 shared task. Social media today is a hotbed of toxic and hateful conversations, in various languages. Recent news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mehar Bhatia , Tenzin Singhay Bhotia , Akshat Agarwal , Prakash Ramesh , Shubham Gupta , Kumar Shridhar , Felix Laumann , Ayushman Dash

This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North S\'ami language varieties. Dialects are language varieties that enclose characteristics…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Sofoklis Kakouros , Katri Hiovain , Martti Vainio , Juraj Šimko

The digital age has expanded social media and online forums, allowing free expression for nearly 45% of the global population. Yet, it has also fueled online harassment, bullying, and harmful behaviors like hate speech and toxic comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Vuong M. Ngo , Cach N. Dang , Kien V. Nguyen , Mark Roantree

Social media often serves as a breeding ground for various hateful and offensive content. Identifying such content on social media is crucial due to its impact on the race, gender, or religion in an unprejudiced society. However, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Mithun Das , Somnath Banerjee , Punyajoy Saha , Animesh Mukherjee