Islamophobia talk at UMass Lowell Nov 6 (video and slides)

[Ted Pedersen]

Thanks to those who attended my talk last week! If you are interested
there is a video available, as are the slides.

Video :
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uml.zoom.us/rec/share/ICD-41kLmsl387e6zEr9zTyBvNXapuTgiMRYJmfzi3xiXdLwTdhihACqOFOYt9qx.NwpzfjaaC9Lvp6Z___;!!PVKG_VDCxu5g!5kyAYjsSS2VNFhN59HLzmqYoJMKjPu4ivCH5oMQaTNnOddiQBmjaA5iJhUpfLx0h$

Slides:
https://www2.slideshare.net/duluthted/automatically-identifying-islamophobia-in-social-media

Comments or questions are of course always appreciated.

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Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota in Duluth
Host: Hadi Amiri, UMASS, Lowell
Time: Nov 6, 2020 at 4:30–5:30pm ET
https://cs.uml.edu/~hadi/cstalks.html

Title: Automatically Identifying Islamophobia in Social Media

Abstract

Social media continues to grow in its scope, importance, and toxicity.
Hate speech is ever-present in today’s social media, and causes or
contributes to dangerous situations in the real world for those it
targets. Anti-Muslim bias and hatred has escalated in both public life
and social media in recent years. This talk will overview a new and
ongoing project in identifying Islamophobia in social media using
techniques from Natural Language Processing. I will describe our
methods of data collection and annotation,and discuss some of the
challenges we have encountered thus far. In addition I’ll describe
some of the pitfalls that exist for any effort attempting to identify
hate speech (automatically or not).
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Ted Pedersen
http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse