Vibhor Agarwal
Academic and research departments
Computer Science Research Centre, Distributed and Networked Systems Group.Â鶹ÊÓƵ
My research project
Why do you hate me? Interpreting and explaining automatic classifications of hate in social mediaThere are numerous examples where hateful speech has been found online and several engines have been developed, focusing for example on racism, misogyny, etc. While they claim to work well on well defined datasets, it is not often clear whether a text is hateful or 'merely offensive'. This project aims to develop new methods to take the context in which a possible hateful utterance is found on social media, and provide interpretations or explanations helping to understand whether something is hateful.
Supervisors
There are numerous examples where hateful speech has been found online and several engines have been developed, focusing for example on racism, misogyny, etc. While they claim to work well on well defined datasets, it is not often clear whether a text is hateful or 'merely offensive'. This project aims to develop new methods to take the context in which a possible hateful utterance is found on social media, and provide interpretations or explanations helping to understand whether something is hateful.
Publications
Highlights
. Vibhor Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Anthony P. Young, and Nishanth Sastry. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022.
. Vibhor Agarwal, and Nishanth Sastry. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022.
. Wenjie Yin*, Vibhor Agarwal*, Aiqi Jiang*, Arkaitz Zubiaga, and Nishanth Sastry. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2023.
. Vibhor Agarwal, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar, and Nishanth Sastry. In ArXiv 2022 (Under Review).