General and Interdisciplinary Meetings

5. SteRHeotypes Project. Detecting and Countering Ethnic Stereotypes emerging from Italian, Spanish and French Racial hoaxes, at SEPLN Seminar of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing at the 7th Spanish Conference on Informatics June 19-20, 2024 A Coruña, Spain. https://seplncedi2024.gplsi.es/program/

4. Overview of DETESTS-Dis at IberLEF 2024: DETEction and classification of racial STereotypes in Spanish. https://detests-dis.github.io/corpus/. Valladolid (Castilla y León, Spain, 24 September 2024) organized by Schmeisser-Nieto and Taulé, M.

3. First Sterheotypes Workshop at the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’: Fake & Hate. Strategie psico-sociali per fronteggiare la misinformation razziale e il pregiudizio nei new media. 24th May 2023, Bari Italy.

2. Seminars of all the project group members at the Universitat de Barcelona (6th and 7th, October 2022)

1. Seminar at the University of Bari (6, May 2022) by Bosco, C., Patti, V., Cignarella, A. T. and Frenda, S.: “Stereotypes and Toxic Speech between Social Psychology and Computational Linguistics“.    

Psychology Events

11. Corbelli G., Cicirelli P., Paciello M., D’Errico (2023). Rolling MInds…’ 13th Conference of the Media Psychology Division (DGPs) 6 – 8 September 2023, Luxembourg.

10. D’Errico F., Cicirelli P., Corbelli G., Paciello M. (September, 2023). ‘Giramenti A conversational web-app per il contrasto agli stereotipi online.’ Aip (Italian Association Social Psychology) Naple

9. D’Errico F. (13th April, 2023) Racial misinformation e stereotipi nei social media: una proposta di intervento psico-sociale.Transversal skills laboratory on International terrorism, prevention and social integration: methodologies & counter-narratives for the de-radicalisation of refugee women and children. Law Faculty, University of Bari.

8. D’Errico, F. Cicirelli P., Corbelli G., Paciello M. (2023) Addressing Racial Hoaxes in Adolescents: A Psycho-social Intervention Aimed at Reducing Ethnic Moral Disengagement. EASP23 European Association Social Psychology General Meeting, Krakow 30June-4July 2023

7. Corbelli, G., Paciello, M., D’Errico, F. (2023) Digital Natives’ Self-efficacy in Regulating Online Sharing of Misleading News. ICPS2023 International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS). 9-11 March, Brussels, Belgium.

6. Paciello M., D’Errico F., Lamponi E. ‘(2021) ‘Ma Fatti Una Risata! Sei Stressata?’ Meme Sessisti Online E I Loro Effetti Sui Processi Morali Ed Emotivi. AIP Italian association of Psychology (Social Psychology section). September, Bergamo 

5. D’Errico F. & Papapicco C. (2021). Racial hoaxes and Prejudice. A Psycho-Linguistic approach to study Italian misinformation.  MedCom2020+1. 6th World Conference on Media and Mass Communication. Virtual Meeting, 18 June 2021.

4. Corbelli, D’Errico, Paciello, Papapicco (2020). Disinformation across the moral domains: when reflecting on fake news credibility can moderate moral emotions. Oxford Internet Studies International simposium on Misinformation.

3. Lamponi E., Paciello M., D’Errico F.(2022). How does benevolent stance can elicit users emotions? The role of individual moral systems and political orientation in understanding citizens’ emotional responses in online contexts. International congress of social psychology AIP, 27-30 September 2022 in Padova, Italy.

2. Scardigno, Mininni, D’Errico (2022) “Contrariamente a quanto afferma Bill Gates…”. La trama discorsiva di fake news e cospirazioni. Linc22 Bari  CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE (Bari, 1-2 dicembre 2022). I linguaggi della crisi tra virus e politica: forme del discorso e modelli di comunicazione.

1. Lamponi, D’Errico, Paciello (2022) How does benevolent stance can elicit users emotions? The role of individual moral systems and political orientation in understanding citizens’ emotional responses in online contexts. Aip 22- Sez Psicologia sociale, in Padova, Italy.

Computational Linguistics Events

8. Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Marinella Paciello, Francesca D’Errico. (2023) Detecting racial stereotypes: An Italian social media corpus where psychology meets NLP. Clic-it, Venice; https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/accepted-papers/

7. Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Simona Frenda, Tom Bourgeade, Cristina Bosco, Francesca D’Errico. (2023) Linking Stance and Stereotypes About Migrants in Italian Fake News. Clic-it Venice

6. HODI 2023 (Homotransphobia Detection in Italian) is a shared task organized at EVALITA 2023 (7th-8th September 2023 in Parma, Italy):

  • Subtask A – Homotransphobia detection: the objective is to detect if a text is homotransphobic or not.
  • Subtask B – Explainability: the objective is to extract the rationales of the classification models trained for Subtask A.

5. HaSpeeDe 2023 (Hate Speech detection in Italian) is a shared task organized at EVALITA 2023 (7th-8th September 2023 in Parma, Italy):

  • Task A: Political Hate Speech Detection: a binary classification task aimed at determining whether the message contains Hate Speech or not
    • Textual: participants can only use the provided textual content of the tweets from PolicyCorpusXL for development.
    • Contextual: participants can employ for development the textual content of the tweets plus contextual information that will be given to them (i.e., metadata of the tweet and author, friends, retweets, and reply relations).
  • Task B: Cross-domain Hate Speech Detection: a binary classification task with test data from different domains. The main objective is to explore cross-domain hate speech detection in two evaluation settings (political and religious).

4. Invited talk of Wolfgang S. Schmeisser-Nieto: “Detección y clasificación de estereotipos contra la inmigración surgidos de fake news en redes sociales” at the Seminar “El PLN como herramienta de investigación para la academia y la industria“ organized by Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (3rd January 2023)

3. 13th Edition of LREC 2022 (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) at Marseille in France (from 20 to 25 June 2022). The event includes the main conference, workshops, and tutorials events.

The works presented at LREC 2022 are:

2. DETESTS IberLEF 2022 (DETEction and classification of racial STereotypes in Spanish)

DETESTS task will take place as part of IberLEF 2022 Workshop, which will be held in A Coruña, Spain, 20 September 2022, collocated with the SEPLN 2022 conference.

The aim of the task is to detect and classify stereotypes in comments posted in Spanish in response to different online news articles related to immigration. A comment can contain multiple stereotypes belonging to different categories and, therefore, it may have multiple labels that need to be accurately detected. This scenario is known in the literature as a multi-label classification problem. However, to adapt the problem to a variety of participants’ interest, the task is designed in a hierarchical fashion by chaining two subtasks and allowing participants to either model the simple binary scenario or complete the entire pipeline by modelling the complex multi-label classification problem.

1. DETOXIS IberLEF 2021 (DEtection of TOXicity in comments In Spanish)

The aim of the DETOXIS task is the detection of toxicity in comments posted in Spanish in response to different online news articles related to immigration.  The DETOXIS task is divided into two related classification subtasks:

Subtask 1: Toxicity detection task is a binary classification task that consists of classifying the content of a comment as toxic (toxic=yes) or not toxic (toxic=no).

Subtask 2: Toxicity level detection task is a more fine grained classification task in which the aim is to identify the level of toxicity of a comment (0= not toxic; 1= mildly toxic; 2= toxic and 3: very toxic).

Other Associated Events

3. Seminar of Mariona Taulé and Mireia Farrús: “Corpus digitals en l’era de la informació” at the Jornades de transferència sobre recerca organized by Facultat de Filologia i Comunicació, Universitat de Barcelona (20th-21st June 2022)

2. HaSpeeDe 2020 (stereotype detection, pilot task)

Haspeede2 follows the experience done in HaSpeeDe 2018 for the detection of hate speech and is organized in 3 subtasks:

Task A – Hate Speech Detection (MAIN TASK): binary classification task aimed at determining whether the message contains Hate Speech or not           

Task B – Stereotype Detection (Pilot Task 1): binary classification task aimed at determining whether the message contains Stereotype or not           

Task C – Identification of Nominal Utterances (Pilot Task 2): sequence labeling task aimed at recognizing Nominal Utterances in hateful tweets

All the information are available at http://www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/haspeede-evalita20/index.html

1. International workshop on NLP approaches to hate speech detection (November 16th 2021)

The seminaire was organized in hybrid mode at Toulouse University and online on November 16th 2021 and grouped around 35 participants from France and Singapore. The program was as follows:

  • 9h25. Farah Benamara and Véronique Moriceau (Assistant Professor at Toulouse University). Introduction.
  • 9h30-10h15. Roy Ka-Wei. Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar (ISTD), Singapore University of Technology and Design. Title: Perils and Promises of Automated Hate Speech Detection.
  • 10h15-11h00. Leon Derczynski. Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Title: Corpus Construction for Absuive Language Detection
  • 11h00-11h45. Viviana Patti. Assistant Professor at the University of Turin. Title:  Abusive Language Detection on Social Media: Are We Far from the Shallow Now?