3 papers
cs.CL2025
Echoes of Discord: Forecasting Hater Reactions to Counterspeech
Xiaoying Song, Sharon Lisseth Perez, Xinchen Yu +2
Hate speech (HS) erodes the inclusiveness of online users and propagates negativity and division. Counterspeech has been recognized as a way to mitigate the harmful consequences. W…
cs.CY2024
Measuring and Forecasting Conversation Incivility: the Role of Antisocial and Prosocial Behaviors
Xinchen Yu, Hayden Arnold, Benjamin Su +1
This paper focuses on the task of measuring and forecasting incivility in conversations following replies to hate speech. Identifying replies that steer conversations away from hat…
cs.CY2023
Hate Cannot Drive out Hate: Forecasting Conversation Incivility following Replies to Hate Speech
Xinchen Yu, Eduardo Blanco, Lingzi Hong
User-generated replies to hate speech are promising means to combat hatred, but questions about whether they can stop incivility in follow-up conversations linger. We argue that ef…