Policies Combating hate speech and hate crime in the EU (Think Tank, European Parliament) 12 June 2022 “In recent times, the European Union (EU) has witnessed a sharp rise in hate speech and hate crime, yet EU…
Algorithms Assorted Memorizing Transformers (arXiv) 12 June 2022 “Language models typically need to be trained or finetuned in order to acquire new knowledge, which involves updating their weights.…
Algorithms Assorted Block-Recurrent Transformers (arXiv) 12 June 2022 “We introduce the Block-Recurrent Transformer, which applies a transformer layer in a recurrent fashion along a sequence, and has linear…
Algorithms Assorted Proactively Reducing the Hate Intensity of Online Posts via Hate Speech Normalization (arXiv) 12 June 2022 “The intention of hate speech normalization is not to support hate but instead to provide the users with a stepping…
Algorithms Assorted Improved two-stage hate speech classification for twitter based on Deep Neural Networks (arXiv) 12 June 2022 “Hate speech is a form of online harassment that involves the use of abusive language, and it is commonly seen…
Assorted Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. May 2022 (II/II) | Policyinstitute.net 28 May 2022 The 40 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech posted by Thorsten Koch,…
Legal Policies The Council of Europe adopted the Recommendation on combating hate speech (Council of Europe) 25 May 2022 “In the Recommendation adopted during its annual session held in Turin on 20 May, the Council of Europe Committee of…
Legal Policies Europe must strongly combat the spread of hate speech and hate crime (European Economic and Social Committee) 25 May 2022 “The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) strongly supports the European Commission in its initiative to extend the list of…
Assorted Review on Countering Extremism and Hate Speech. May 2022 (I/II) | Policyinstitute.net 17 May 2022 The 50 most popular LinkedIn posts on the topics of counter-extremism and of countering hate speech posted by Thorsten Koch,…
Algorithms Risk Matrix for Violent Radicalization: A Machine Learning Approach (Frontiers in Psychology) 13 May 2022 “Typically, violent extremists came from criminal but not radical backgrounds and were radicalized in late stages of their life. They…
Algorithms Hidden behind the obvious: misleading keywords and implicitly abusive language on social media (arXiv) 13 May 2022 “While social media offers freedom of self-expression, abusive language carry significant negative social impact. Driven by the importance of the…
Algorithms Necessity and Sufficiency for Explaining Text Classifiers: A Case Study in Hate Speech Detection (SVKIR) 13 May 2022 “We propose a transparent method that calculates these values by generating explicit perturbations of the input text, allowing the importance…