7 papers
To Facilitate or not to Facilitate: Human and LLM Facilitator Tendencies in Online Discussions
Dimitris Tsirmpas, Katerina Korre, John Pavlopoulos
Automating facilitation in online discussions is a long-standing social concern given the increasing time we spend on online spaces and the failure of content moderation approaches…
Proverbs or Pythian Oracles? Sentiments and Emotions in Greek Sayings
Katerina Korre, John Pavlopoulos
Proverbs are among the most fascinating language phenomena that transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries. Yet, much of the global landscape of proverbs remains underexplored, a…
The CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Normalization, and Retrieval
Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Tanmoy Chakraborty +11
The CheckThat! lab aims to advance the development of innovative technologies designed to identify and counteract online disinformation and manipulation efforts across various lang…
Evaluation and Facilitation of Online Discussions in the LLM Era: A Survey
Katerina Korre, Dimitris Tsirmpas, Nikos Gkoumas +5
We present a survey of methods for assessing and enhancing the quality of online discussions, focusing on the potential of LLMs. While online discourses aim, at least in theory, to…
Hate Speech According to the Law: An Analysis for Effective Detection
Katerina Korre, John Pavlopoulos, Paolo Gajo +1
The issue of hate speech extends beyond the confines of the online realm. It is a problem with real-life repercussions, prompting most nations to formulate legal frameworks that cl…
Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains
Katerina Korre, Arianna Muti, Federico Ruggeri +1
Hate speech relies heavily on cultural influences, leading to varying individual interpretations. For that reason, we propose a Semantic Componential Analysis (SCA) framework for a…