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Important updates

Slides can be found here
Video of the tutorial can be found here!!

Contributions and achievements

Our papers are accepted in top conferences/journals like PNAS, NeurIPS, LREC, AAAI, IJCAI, WWW, ECML-PKDD, CSCW, ICWSM, HyperText and WebSci. Link to the papers here
We have open sourced our codes and datasets under a single github organisation - hate-alert for the future research in this domain
We have stored different transformers models in huggingface.co. Link to hatealert organisation
Dataset from our recent accepted paper in AAAI - “Hatexplain:A Benchmark Dataset for Explainable Hate Speech Detection” is also stored in the huggingface datsets forum
We also participate in several hate speech shared tasks, winning many of them - hatealert@URDU_SOC,hatealert@DLTEACL, hateminers@AMI, hatemonitors@HASOC and coming under 1% in hatealert@Hatememe detection by Facebook AI.
Notion page containing hate speech papers.

Tutorial Outline

Outline of the Tutorial

Introduction (25 mins)
Analysis (40 mins)
1. Prevalence of hate speech.
2. Targets of hate speech.
3. Effects of hate speech.
4. Effect of offline events.
Detection (40 mins)
1. Summary of different datasets.
  1. Unimodal.
  2. Multimodal.
2. Earlier detection models.
3. Current detection models .
4. Multimodal and multilingual hate speech.
5. Challenge.
  1. Evaluation.
  2. Explainability.
  3. Bias.
Mitigation (40 mins).
1. Counterspeech campaigns.
2. Banning and suspending users.
3. Counterspeech detection.
4. Counterspeech generation.
5. Effect of counter speech.
Demo (15 mins).
Future Challenge (10 mins).

About the Organizers

Punyajoy Saha is a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His research interests lies in the nexus of social computing and natural language processing. More about him can be found here.

Binny Mathew is a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His research interest lies in computational social science and natural language processing. More about him can be found here.

Mithun Das is a PhD scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His research interests lie in computational social science and natural language processing. More about him can be found here.

Animesh Mukherjee is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (India). His research interest lies in natural language processing, information retrieval and AI and ethics. More about him can be found here.

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