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Vindication, Virtue and Vitriol: A study of online engagement and abuse toward British MPs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tracie Farrell, Genevieve Gorrell, Kalina Bontcheva
COVID-19 has given rise to malicious content online, including online abuse and hate toward British MPs. In order to understand and contextualise the level of abuse MPs receive, we…
Online Abuse toward Candidates during the UK General Election 2019: Working Paper
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E Bakir, Ian Roberts +2
The 2019 UK general election took place against a background of rising online hostility levels toward politicians and concerns about its impact on democracy. We collected 4.2 milli…
Race and Religion in Online Abuse towards UK Politicians: Working Paper
Genevieve Gorrell, Mehmet E. Bakir, Mark A. Greenwood +2
Against a backdrop of tensions related to EU membership, we find levels of online abuse toward UK MPs reach a new high. Race and religion have become pressing topics globally, and…
Analysis of Named Entity Recognition and Linking for Tweets
Leon Derczynski, Diana Maynard, Giuseppe Rizzo +5
Applying natural language processing for mining and intelligent information access to tweets (a form of microblog) is a challenging, emerging research area. Unlike carefully author…