24005 Social Media Hate Speech Detection

Project Title: Social Media Hate Speech Detection

Key Words: Social Media ,Hate Speech

Research Topics: Social Media

Mentor: Alexander Hohl, The University of Utah, alexander.hohl@geog.utah.edu

Project Description:

This project focuses on developing and applying methods to detect hate speech in social media data. Such methods could involve developing corpora of hate terms or fine-tuning large language models.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Collect geotagged social media posts
• Create lists of hate-terms for different minority groups
• Create training data for supervised classification
• Process and classify large amounts of documents 

Minimum qualifications:

• R/Python programming
• GIS
• Literature search

Term of the Project:

• 1 year

Deliverables:

• A set of visualizations (maps, charts) showcasing key insights.
• A comprehensive report detailing findings, interpretations, and recommendations.
• Documentation of the workflow, methodology, and tools used for reproducibility.
• Presentation of key findings and insights to the research team and stakeholders.