Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges (2024.emnlp-tutorials)
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Leon Derczynski, Marco Guerini, Debora Nozza, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Jeffrey Sorensen, Marcos Zampieri
| Challenge: | a comprehensive understanding of the field is needed to maintain respectful and inclusive online environments. |
| Approach: | This tutorial aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the field by delving into essential dimensions such as multilingualism, counter-narrative generation, a hands-on session with one of the most popular APIs for detecting hate speech, fairness, and ethics in AI, and the use of recent advanced approaches. |
| Outcome: | This tutorial aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the field by delving into essential dimensions such as multilingualism, counter-narrative generation, a hands-on session with one of the most popular APIs for detecting hate speech, fairness, and ethics in AI, and the use of recent advanced approaches. |
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