Detecting Harmful Content On Online Platforms: What Platforms Need Vs. Where Research Efforts Go

no code implementations • 27 Feb 2021 • Arnav Arora, Preslav Nakov, Momchil Hardalov, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Vibha Nayak, Yoan Dinkov, Dimitrina Zlatkova, Kyle Dent, Ameya Bhatawdekar, Guillaume Bouchard, Isabelle Augenstein

The proliferation of harmful content on online platforms is a major societal problem, which comes in many different forms including hate speech, offensive language, bullying and harassment, misinformation, spam, violence, graphic content, sexual abuse, self harm, and many other.

Abusive Language Misinformation

Ethical Considerations for AI Researchers

no code implementations • 13 Jun 2020 • Kyle Dent

While the ethics of AI is not clear-cut, there are guidelines we can consider to minimize the harm we might introduce.

Ethics

Through the Twitter Glass: Detecting Questions in Micro-Text

no code implementations • 13 Jun 2020 • Kyle Dent, Sharoda Paul

In a separate study, we were interested in understanding people's Q&A habits on Twitter.

Conversational User Interfaces for Blind Knowledge Workers: A Case Study

no code implementations • 13 Jun 2020 • Kyle Dent, Kalai Ramea

We present a case study of our work to develop a conversational user interface for accessibility for multifunction printers.