Recent Talks

2023

Echoes of Fear: Unraveling the Presence of Fear Speech in Social Media Platforms @CyberVSR

This talk explores the impact of harmful speech, particularly fear speech, on social media platforms such as Gab and Whatsapp in the US …

Hate speech: Detection, Mitigation and Beyond @WSDM

In this translation style tutorial presented at WSDM 2023, we present an exposition of hate speech detection and mitigation and also …

Enabling moderation of harmful content in online social media platforms@CLAWS group

Social media has become an integral part of our everyday life. It allows the rapid dissemination of information and opinions. However, …

2022

Generating counter speech with CounterGeDi@CredCo

Recently, many studies have tried to create generation models to assist counter speakers by providing counterspeech suggestions for …

Hate speech: Detection, Mitigation and Beyond @AAAI

In this translation style tutorial presented at AAAI 2022, we present an exposition of hate speech detection and mitigation and also …

Fear speech in Indian Whatsapp groups @ARCS

In this paper, we perform the first large scale study on fear speech across thousands of public WhatsApp groups discussing politics in …

2021

Automating Counterspeech: Challenges and Opportunities

In this invited talk, I talk about how we can automate counterspeech generation and assist the moderators working in this domain. I …

Fear speech in Indian Whatsapp groups@1C2S2

In this paper, we perform the first large scale study on fear speech across thousands of public WhatsApp groups discussing politics in …

Hate speech: Detection, Mitigation and Beyond @ICWSM

In this translation style tutorial presented at ICWSM 2021, we present an exposition of hate speech detection and mitigation and also …