6 papers
Deconstructing Stereotypes: Scope-Conditioned Generation for Effective Multilingual Counterspeech
Greta Damo, Elias Urios Alacreu, Elena Cabrio +2
Counterspeech (CS) - direct responses that counter online Hate Speech (HS) using reasoning and alternative viewpoints - has emerged as an alternative to content removal. Current au…
Retrieving Relations, Detecting Fallacies: A RAG Approach to Political Debate Analysis
Deborah Dore, Greta Damo, Elena Cabrio +1
Fallacies are arguments that employ invalid reasoning, making their automatic detection critical in sensitive contexts such as high-stakes political debates, where public opinion i…
PEACE 2.0: Grounded Explanations and Counter-Speech for Combating Hate Expressions
Greta Damo, Stéphane Petiot, Elena Cabrio +1
The increasing volume of hate speech on online platforms poses significant societal challenges. While the Natural Language Processing community has developed effective methods to a…
Beating Harmful Stereotypes Through Facts: RAG-based Counter-speech Generation
Greta Damo, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
Counter-speech generation is at the core of many expert activities, such as fact-checking and hate speech, to counter harmful content. Yet, existing work treats counter-speech gene…
Effectiveness of Counter-Speech against Abusive Content: A Multidimensional Annotation and Classification Study
Greta Damo, Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
Counter-speech (CS) is a key strategy for mitigating online Hate Speech (HS), yet defining the criteria to assess its effectiveness remains an open challenge. We propose a novel co…
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…