1 code implementation • 31 Jul 2023 • Hannah Rose Kirk, Angus R. Williams, Liam Burke, Yi-Ling Chung, Ivan Debono, Pica Johansson, Francesca Stevens, Jonathan Bright, Scott A. Hale
We find that (i) small amounts of diverse data are hugely beneficial to generalisation and model adaptation; (ii) models transfer more easily across demographics but models trained on cross-domain data are more generalisable; (iii) some groups contribute more to generalisability than others; and (iv) dataset similarity is a signal of transferability.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2023 • Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, Florence Enock, Jonathan Bright, Verena Rieser
Counterspeech offers direct rebuttals to hateful speech by challenging perpetrators of hate and showing support to targets of abuse.
1 code implementation • EMNLP (ArgMining) 2021 • Yi-Ling Chung, Marco Guerini, Rodrigo Agerri
The growing interest in employing counter narratives for hatred intervention brings with it a focus on dataset creation and automation strategies.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2021 • Yi-Ling Chung, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Sara Tonelli, Marco Guerini
In this paper, we introduce a novel ICT platform that NGO operators can use to monitor and analyze social media data, along with a counter-narrative suggestion tool.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Yi-Ling Chung, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Marco Guerini
Tackling online hatred using informed textual responses - called counter narratives - has been brought under the spotlight recently.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Yi-Ling Chung, Marco Guerini
Recently research has started focusing on avoiding undesired effects that come with content moderation, such as censorship and overblocking, when dealing with hatred online.
1 code implementation • ACL 2019 • Yi-Ling Chung, Elizaveta Kuzmenko, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Marco Guerini
Although there is an unprecedented effort to provide adequate responses in terms of laws and policies to hate content on social media platforms, dealing with hatred online is still a tough problem.