LINGUIST List 33.473

Mon Feb 07 2022

Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Pragmatics, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/Portugal

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Date: 05-Feb-2022
From: Isabel Ermida <iermidaelach.uminho.pt>
Subject: International Conference on Online Hate Speech
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Full Title: International Conference on Online Hate Speech

Date: 07-Jul-2022 - 09-Jul-2022
Location: Braga, Portugal
Contact Person: Isabel Ermida
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/hate-speech-conference

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2022

Meeting Description:

The conference stems from a three-year project involving researchers from five countries, in which a large corpus of online verbal interactions was extracted from online social media and annotated for analysis. The analytical results will be presented at the conference, which aims to attract external participation from scholars and students interested in the widespread and ever-growing expression of hate, prejudice and discrimination in computer-mediated social platforms.

Call for Papers:

We welcome 300-word abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations on a variety of topics dealing with the broad phenomenon of hate on the Internet, with a special focus on reader comments and interactions. Proposals should be sent by email to Ms Filipa Pereira at a81712alunos.uminho.pt (see ''Abstract submission'' page).

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:

Language patterns for hate speech detection

Hate speech vs. aggressive speech: definition challenges

Sociolinguistic variables of online hate speech

Impoliteness Studies and Hate Speech Analysis

Speech act patterns in hate speech (insulting, threatening, inciting, accusing...)

Pragmatic strategies in hate speech: othering, blame reversal, denial, agency deletion...

Humor, ridicule and indirectness in online hate speech

Building and annotating hate speech corpora

NLP (Natural Language Processing) of Online Hate Speech

Hate speech victimization

Legal issues in online hate speech

Analysis of online hate speech in learning and teaching contexts

Hate speech vs. free speech: philosophical and political implications

Types of prejudice in online hate speech: profiling authors and targets




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