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most citedUsing Pre-Trained Language Models for Producing Counter Narratives Against Hate Speech: a Comparative Study

3 citations · 8 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2026

CATCH-ME if you RAG: a dataset of Contextually Annotated multi-Turn Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation Exchanges

Helena Bonaldi, Genoveffa Martone, Marco Guerini

Online hate speech and misinformation frequently overlap, yet NLP research has mainly treated them in isolation. While LLMs represent a scalable solution for assisting humans in th…

cs.CL2026

Assisted Counterspeech Writing at the Crossroads of Hate Speech and Misinformation

Genoveffa Martone, Helena Bonaldi, Marco Guerini

Hate speech and misinformation frequently co-occur online, amplifying prejudice and polarization. Given their scale, using Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist expert counterspee…

cs.CL2024

Is Safer Better? The Impact of Guardrails on the Argumentative Strength of LLMs in Hate Speech Countering

Helena Bonaldi, Greta Damo, Nicolás Benjamín Ocampo +3

The potential effectiveness of counterspeech as a hate speech mitigation strategy is attracting increasing interest in the NLG research community, particularly towards the task of…

cs.CL2024

NLP for Counterspeech against Hate: A Survey and How-To Guide

Helena Bonaldi, Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie +1

In recent years, counterspeech has emerged as one of the most promising strategies to fight online hate. These non-escalatory responses tackle online abuse while preserving the fre…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Weigh Your Own Words: Improving Hate Speech Counter Narrative Generation via Attention Regularization

Helena Bonaldi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza +1

Recent computational approaches for combating online hate speech involve the automatic generation of counter narratives by adapting Pretrained Transformer-based Language Models (PL…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Human-Machine Collaboration Approaches to Build a Dialogue Dataset for Hate Speech Countering

Helena Bonaldi, Sara Dellantonio, Serra Sinem Tekiroglu +1

Fighting online hate speech is a challenge that is usually addressed using Natural Language Processing via automatic detection and removal of hate content. Besides this approach, c…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Using Pre-Trained Language Models for Producing Counter Narratives Against Hate Speech: a Comparative Study

Serra Sinem Tekiroglu, Helena Bonaldi, Margherita Fanton +1

In this work, we present an extensive study on the use of pre-trained language models for the task of automatic Counter Narrative (CN) generation to fight online hate speech in Eng…