3 papers
cs.CL2026
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +31
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labe…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CY2024
Silenced voices: social media polarization and women's marginalization in peacebuilding during the Northern Ethiopia War
Adem Chanie Ali, Seid Muhie Yimam, Abinew Ali Ayele +2
This study examines the complex relationship between social media, polarization, and conflict, with a focus on digital peacebuilding and women's participation, using the Northern E…