4 papers
HatePRISM: Policies, Platforms, and Research Integration. Advancing NLP for Hate Speech Proactive Mitigation
Naquee Rizwan, Seid Muhie Yimam, Daryna Dementieva +11
Despite regulations imposed by nations and social media platforms, e.g. (Government of India, 2021; European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2022), inter alia, hatefu…
POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +40
Online polarization poses a growing challenge for democratic discourse, yet most computational social science research remains monolingual, culturally narrow, or event-specific. We…
Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language
Dawit Ketema Gete, Bedru Yimam Ahmed, Tadesse Destaw Belay +11
This work explores fine-tuning OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model for Amharic, a low-resource language, to improve transcription accuracy. While the foundati…
BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin +45
People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition--an umbrella term for several NLP tasks--impacts various applications wit…