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We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology (https://hitz.eus/katedra). We are organizing one seminar every month.

Speaker: Elena Cabrio (Université Côte d’Azur – Inria) Title: Understanding and Mitigating Online Hate: From Implicit Hate Speech Detection to Counterspeech Generation Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026 - 15:00 CET

Summary: Research on abusive content on social media has primarily focused on binary hate speech detection, with greater attention devoted to explicit forms of hate than to implicit expressions. However, implicit hate speech can be equally harmful, as it often conveys hostility through insinuations, stereotypes, coded language, and context-dependent meanings, making it more difficult to identify and potentially allowing it to bypass existing moderation systems.The talk first explores computational approaches to detecting implicit hate speech on social media. Then, it examines counterspeech as a complementary mitigation strategy, focusing on the use of factual evidence and alternative viewpoints to challenge hateful narratives. The talk will discuss challenges in counterspeech generation, including subjective evaluation, generic and factually unreliable responses, limited attention to harmful stereotypes, and the scarcity of multilingual resources. Finally, it discusses future directions toward more reliable and context-aware methods for detecting and countering online hate.

Bio: Elena Cabrio is Full Professor in Computer Science at Université Côte d’Azur in France. She is member of the Inria-I3S joint research team MARIANNE (Methods and data for Computational Argumentation in natural language). She holds a Chair in AI at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence 3IA Côte d’Azur on ``Advanced Natural Language Understanding''. Her main research interests are Argumentation Mining and Generation, Information Extraction and Abusive Language Detection.

Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea

Upcoming webinars:

Jörg Tiedemann (Dec 3)     Beyza Ermiş (Jan 14)     Sara Oberbichler (Feb 4)

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The HiTZ Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology