{"id":1494,"date":"2025-02-20T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:59:15","slug":"ranasinghe-offensive-or-not-are-we-doing-offensive-language-detection-in-the-correct-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/2025\/02\/20\/ranasinghe-offensive-or-not-are-we-doing-offensive-language-detection-in-the-correct-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranasinghe – Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?"},"content":{"rendered":"

FACTOR is pleased to announce our final talk of the 2024-2025 academic year by Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe<\/a>\u00a0(Computing<\/a>,\u00a0SPS<\/a>):<\/p>\n

TITLE<\/strong>
\nOffensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong>
\nOffensive speech on web platforms is a persistent problem with wide-ranging impacts. There are many automatic content moderation systems that detect offensive content on web platforms. However, among many reasons why these tools fail to eliminate the problem is the reality that people often disagree on what is offensive.<\/p>\n

In this talk, I will talk about how content moderation issues arise in political discussions, how machine and human moderators disagree on what is offensive when it comes to real-world social web political discourse and how content moderation research should address them. I will then present my broader vision of integrating this idea into other subjective natural language processing tasks.<\/p>\n

TIME & PLACE<\/strong><\/p>\n

W18, 1500-1550, Thu 06th Mar 2025, Bowland North SR10<\/a>. (Please note that this talk will not<\/strong> be streamed or recorded.)<\/p>\n

Find information on how to get to campus here<\/a>, and how to navigate campus buildings here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FACTOR is pleased to announce our final talk of the 2024-2025 academic year by Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe\u00a0(Computing,\u00a0SPS): TITLE Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way? ABSTRACT Offensive speech on web platforms is a persistent problem with wide-ranging impacts. There are many automatic content moderation systems that detect offensive content […]","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"episode_featured_image":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/files\/2025\/02\/moderators.jpeg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/files\/2018\/11\/cover_2000.png?fit=2000%2C2000","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/feed\/podcast\/the-forge","embedCode":"

Ranasinghe – Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?<\/a><\/blockquote>