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Manohar Gowdru Shridharu	true	category tag author phd2024 lm nlp hatespeech Daniel Hladek

Manohar Gowdru Shridharu

Beginning of the study: 2021

Disertation Thesis

in 2023/24

Hate Speech Detection

Goals:

• Write a dissertaion thesis
• Publish 2 A-class journal papers

Minimal Thesis

(preliminary dissertaion and exam in 2022/23)

Goals:

• Provide state-of-the-art overview.
• Formulate dissertation theses (describe scientific contribution of the thesis).
• Prepare to reach the scientific contribution.
• Publish 4 conference papers.

First year of PhD study

Goals:

• Provide state-of-the-art overview.
• Read and make notes from at least 100 scientific papers or books.
• Publish at least 2 conference papers.
• Prepare for minimal thesis.

Resources:

• Hate Speech Project Page

Meeting 10.11.21

First tasks

Prepare a report where you will explain:

• what is hate speech detection,
• where and why you can use hate-speech detection,
• what are state-of-the-art methods for hate speech detection,
• how can you evaluate a hate-speech detection system,
• what datasets for hate-speech detection are available,

The report should properly cite scientific bibliographical sources. Use a bibliography manager software, such as Mendeley. Create a VPN connection to the university network to have access to the scientific databses. Use scientific indexes to discover literature:

• Scopus (available from TUKE VPN)
• Scholar

Your review can start with:

• Hate speech detection: Challenges and solutions
• HateBase
• Resources and benchmark corpora for hate speech detection: a systematic review

Get to know the Python programming language

• Read Dive into Python
• Install Anaconda
• Try HuggingFace Transformers library