2 papers
cs.CL2020
Toxic Language Detection in Social Media for Brazilian Portuguese: New Dataset and Multilingual Analysis
João A. Leite, Diego F. Silva, Kalina Bontcheva +1
Hate speech and toxic comments are a common concern of social media platform users. Although these comments are, fortunately, the minority in these platforms, they are still capabl…
cs.CL2020
Measuring What Counts: The case of Rumour Stance Classification
Carolina Scarton, Diego F. Silva, Kalina Bontcheva
Stance classification can be a powerful tool for understanding whether and which users believe in online rumours. The task aims to automatically predict the stance of replies towar…