JOWS #6 - Riza Batista-Navarro - Annotating and Detecting Hate Speech in Social Media Platforms Used in Ethiopia

This presentation is based on a seminar talk given as part of the JOWS monthly series.

Riza Batista-Navarro is Senior Lecturer in Text Mining at the University of Manchester. She has been working on the development of natural language processing (NLP) methods for analysing online hate speech, as part of the OSR4Rights project (https://osr4rights.org/) and a collaboration with the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) researching technology-facilitated gender-based violence in Ethiopia (https://aclanthology.org/2024.rail-1.13/). This presentation outline key elements of the policy paper/recommendations resulting from their empirical work with CIR.