social media

Cyberbullying Detection via Aggression-Enhanced Prompting

Detecting cyberbullying on social media remains a critical challenge due to its subtle and varied expressions. This study investigates whether integrating aggression detection as an auxiliary task within a unified training framework can enhance the …

Towards a Robust Framework for Multimodal Hate Detection: A Study on Video vs. Image-based Content

Social media platforms enable the propagation of hateful content across different modalities such as textual, auditory, and visual, necessitating effective detection methods. While recent approaches have shown promise in handling individual …

Decoding Cyberbullying on Social Media: A Machine Learning Exploration

Social media, a vast platform for communication and entertainment, unfortunately, is an ideal breeding ground for cyberbullying. While most common among teenagers, it also affects other demographics. Despite strict zero-tolerance policies on social …

Modelling Political Aggression on Social Media Platforms

Recent years have seen a proliferation of aggressive social media posts, often wreaking even real-world consequences for victims. Aggressive behaviour on social media is especially evident during important sociopolitical events such as elections, …

Harnessing Abstractive Summarization for Fact-Checked Claim Detection

Social media platforms have become new battlegrounds for anti-social elements, with misinformation being the weapon of choice. Fact-checking organizations try to debunk as many claims as possible while staying true to their journalistic processes but …

Civique: Using Social Media to detect Urban Emergencies

We present the Civique system for emergency detection in urban areas by monitoring micro blogs like Tweets. The system detects emergency related events, and classifies them into appropriate categories like 'fire', 'accident', 'earthquake', etc. We …