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.

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