Beyond Digital "Echo Chambers": The Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussion

1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2022 • Rishav Hada, Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Sarah Shugars, Federico Bianchi, Patricia Rossini, Dirk Hovy, Rebekah Tromble, Nava Tintarev

We find that the diversity scores for both Fragmentation and Representation are lower for immigration than for DST.

Recommendation Systems

"It's Not Just Hate'': A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Detecting Harmful Speech Online

no code implementations • 28 Oct 2022 • Federico Bianchi, Stefanie Anja Hills, Patricia Rossini, Dirk Hovy, Rebekah Tromble, Nava Tintarev

Well-annotated data is a prerequisite for good Natural Language Processing models.

Introducing CAD: the Contextual Abuse Dataset

1 code implementation • NAACL 2021 • Bertie Vidgen, Dong Nguyen, Helen Margetts, Patricia Rossini, Rebekah Tromble

Online abuse can inflict harm on users and communities, making online spaces unsafe and toxic.

Detecting East Asian Prejudice on Social Media

4 code implementations • EMNLP (ALW) 2020 • Bertie Vidgen, Austin Botelho, David Broniatowski, Ella Guest, Matthew Hall, Helen Margetts, Rebekah Tromble, Zeerak Waseem, Scott Hale

The outbreak of COVID-19 has transformed societies across the world as governments tackle the health, economic and social costs of the pandemic.

Challenges and frontiers in abusive content detection

1 code implementation • WS 2019 • Bertie Vidgen, Alex Harris, Dong Nguyen, Rebekah Tromble, Scott Hale, Helen Margetts

Online abusive content detection is an inherently difficult task.

Abuse Detection

How we do things with words: Analyzing text as social and cultural data

no code implementations • 2 Jul 2019 • Dong Nguyen, Maria Liakata, Simon DeDeo, Jacob Eisenstein, David Mimno, Rebekah Tromble, Jane Winters

Second, we hope to provide a set of best practices for working with thick social and cultural concepts.