Hateful comments, swearwords and sometimes even death threats are becoming a reality for many people today in online environments. This is especially true for journalists, politicians, artists, and other public figures. This paper describes how hate directed towards individuals can be measured in online environments using a simple dictionary-based approach. We present a case study on Swedish politicians, and use examples from this study to discuss shortcomings of the proposed dictionary-based approach. We also outline possibilities for potential refinements of the proposed approach.
@InProceedings{ISBISTER18.2, author = {Tim Isbister ,Magnus Sahlgren ,Lisa Kaati ,Milan Obaidi and Nazar Akrami}, title = {Monitoring Targeted Hate in Online Environments}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Els Lefever and Bart Desmet and Guy De Pauw}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-27-6}, language = {english} }
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