# 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, **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.