Publications – Hate-Covid Project

Here you can find published scientific papers developed by our team on the various topics linked with the project.

Peer-review publications

Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Cláudia Silva, Fernando Batista, and Ricardo Ribeiro (2023). The Expression of Hate Speech Against Afro-descendant, Roma and LGBTQ+ Communities in YouTube Comments. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00085.car, https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jlac.00085.car

Cláudia Silva, Paula Carvalho (2023). When Can Compliments and Humor Be Considered Hate Speech? A Perspective From Target Groups in Portugal. Accepted for publication on March 1, 2023. Comunicação & Sociedade. URL.

Paula Carvalho, Bernardo Matos, Raquel Santos, Fernando Batista, and Ricardo Ribeiro (2022). Hate Speech Dynamics Against African descent, Roma and LGBTQI Communities in Portugal. In Proceedings of LREC 2022 – 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Raquel Bento Santos, Bernardo Cunha Matos, Paula Carvalho, Fernando Batista, and Ricardo Ribeiro (2022). Semi-Supervised Annotation of Portuguese Hate Speech Across Social Media Domains. In João Cordeiro, Maria João Pereira, Nuno F. Rodrigues, and Sebastião Pais, editors, 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022), volume 104 of Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), pages 11:1–11:14, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2022. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. ISBN 978-3-95977-245-7. doi: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.11. URL https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16757.

Bernardo Cunha Matos, Raquel Bento Santos, Paula Carvalho, Ricardo Ribeiro, and Fernando Batista (2022). Comparing Different Approaches for Detecting Hate Speech in Online Portuguese Comments. In João Cordeiro, Maria João Pereira, Nuno F. Rodrigues, and Sebastião Pais, editors, 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022), volume 104 of Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), pages 10:1–10:12, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2022. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. ISBN 978-3-95977-245-7. doi: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.10. https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16756.

Master Thesis

Bernardo Cunha Matos (2022), Automatic Hate Speech Detection in Portuguese Social Media Text. Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa.

Raquel Bento Santos (2022), Semi-Automatic Selection and Annotation of Hate Speech from Social Media. Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa.