🗓️ Schedule

🕘 Time	📌 Event Description
09:00 - 09:20	Opening Remarks
09:20 - 10:00	Invited Talk: Cordelia Moore
10:00 - 10:30	Best Paper + Best Theme Paper
10:30 - 10:50	Break
10:50 - 11:30	Invited Talk: Francesco Barbieri (Meta)
11:30 - 12:10	Invited Talk: Kate Sim (COSPR)
12:10 - 13:40	Lunch Break
13:40 - 15:10	Poster Session
15:10 - 15:40	Lightning Talks
15:40 - 16:00	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Panel Discussion: Harms Beyond Hate Speech
17:00 - 17:10	Closing Remarks

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📄 Proceedings

You can access the full proceedings of the workshop here (PDF).

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🏆 Awards

🥇 Best Paper Award

Title: From civility to parity: Marxist-feminist ethics for context-aware algorithmic content moderation
Authors: Dayei Oh

🌟 Best Theme Paper Award

Title: Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse
Authors: Mark J. Hill

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🖼️ Poster Presentations

• A Comprehensive Taxonomy of Bias Mitigation Methods for Hate Speech Detection
  Jan Fillies, Marius Wawerek, Adrian Paschke

• Sensitive Content Classification in Social Media: A Holistic Resource and Evaluation
  Dimosthenis Antypas, Indira Sen, Carla Perez Almendros, Jose Camacho-Collados, Francesco Barbieri

• A Novel Dataset for Classifying German Hate Speech
  Vincent Kums, Florian Meyer, Luisa Emily Pivit, Uliana Vedenina, Jonas Wortmann, Melanie Siegel, Dirk Labudde

• Learning from Disagreement: Entropy-Guided Few-Shot Selection for Toxic Language Detection
  Tommaso Caselli, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco

• Web(er) of Hate: A Survey on How Hate Speech Is Typed
  Luna Wang, Andrew Caines, Alice Hutchings

• Think Like a Person Before Responding: Persona-Guided LLMs for Countering Hate Speech
  Mikel K. Ngueajio, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Yi-Ling Chung, Danda Rawat, Amanda Cercas Curry

• HODIAT: A New Dataset for Detecting Homotransphobic Hate Speech in Italian
  Greta Damo, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Tommaso Caselli, Viviana Patti, Debora Nozza

• Beyond the Binary: Analysing Transphobic Hate and Harassment Online
  Anna Talas, Alice Hutchings

• Evading Toxicity Detection with ASCII-art: A Benchmark of Spatial Attacks
  Sergey A. Berezin, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

• Debunking with Dialogue? AI-Generated Counterspeech for Conspiracies
  Mareike Lisker, Christina Gottschalk, Helena Mihaljević

• MisinfoTeleGraph: Misinformation Detection for German Telegram
  Lu Kalkbrenner, Veronika Solopova, Steffen Zeiler, Robert Nickel, Dorothea Kolossa

• Exploring Hate Speech Detection Models for Lithuanian Language
  Justina Mandravickaitė, Eglė Rimkienė, Mindaugas Petkevičius, Milita Songailaitė, Eimantas Zaranka, Tomas Krilavičius

• RAG and Recall: Multilingual Hate Speech Detection with Semantic Memory
  Khouloud Mnassri, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

• Implicit Hate Target Span Detection in Zero- and Few-Shot Settings
  Hossam Boudraa, Benoit Favre, Raquel Urena

• DETOXIFY-IT: An Italian Parallel Dataset for Text Detoxification
  Viola De Ruvo, Arianna Muti, Daryna Dementieva, Debora Nozza

• Pathways to Radicalisation: On Research for Online Radicalisation in NLP and ML
  Zeerak Talat, Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull, Pranava Madhyastha, Christine de Kock

• Social Hatred: Efficient Multimodal Detection of Hatemongers
  Tom Marzea, Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur

• Blue-haired, misandriche, rabiata: Tracing the Connotation of ‘Feminist(s)’
  Arianna Muti, Sara Gemelli, Emanuele Moscato, Emilie Francis, Amanda Cercas Curry, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza

• Towards Fairness Assessment of Dutch Hate Speech Detection
  Julie Bauer, Rishabh Kaushal, Thales Bertaglia, Adriana Iamnitchi

• Between Hetero-Fatalism and Dark Femininity: Discussions of the Femosphere
  Emilie Francis

• Can LLMs Rank the Harmfulness of Smaller LLMs?
  Berk Atil, Vipul Gupta, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Rebecca J. Passonneau

• Are You Trying to Convince Me or Are You Trying to Deceive Me?
  Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Emilie Francis, Anna Lindahl

• Who leads? Who follows? Temporal Dynamics of Dogwhistles in Sweden
  Max Boholm, Gregor Rettenegger, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Asad Sayeed

• Detecting Child Objectification on Social Media
  Miriam Schirmer, Angelina Voggenreiter, Juergen Pfeffer, Agnes Horvat

• Can Prompting LLMs Unlock Hate Speech Detection Across Languages?
  Faeze Ghorbanpour, Daryna Dementieva, Alexandar Fraser

• Multilingual Analysis of Narrative Characteristics in Conspiracist Telegram Channels
  Katarina Laken, Matteo Melis, Sara Tonelli, Marcos Garcia

• Hate Explained: Evaluating NER-Enriched Text in Human and Machine Moderation
  Andres Carvallo, Marcelo Mendoza, Miguel Fernandez, Maximiliano Ojeda, Lilly Guevara, Diego Varela, Martin Borquez, Nicolas Buzeta, Felix Ayala

• Online Misogyny Against Female Candidates in Brazil’s 2022 Elections
  Luise Koch, Raji Ghawi, Jürgen Pfeffer, Janina Steinert

• Technology-Facilitated Violence and Political Participation in Brazil
  Luise Koch, Macarena Sfeir Sfeir, Thayná Yaredy, Angelina Voggenreiter, Janina Steinert

• Beyond Generic Responses: Target-Aware Strategies for Countering Hate Speech
  Yen-Yu Chang, Daryna Dementieva, Alexander Fraser

• Civil Society in the Loop: Feedback-Driven LLM Monitoring Tool for Telegram
  Milena Pustet, Elisabeth Steffen, Helena Mihaljevic, Grischa Stanjek, Yannis Illies

• Monitoring Hate Speech in Indonesia: An NLP-based Classification
  Musa Wijanarko, Lucky Susanto, Prasetia Pratama, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Ika Idris

• Multi-Labeled Dataset for Indonesian Discourse: Toxicity & Polarization
  Lucky Susanto, Musa Wijanarko, Prasetia Pratama, Zilu Tang, Fariz Akyas, Traci Hong, Ika Idris, Alham Fikri Aji, Derry Tanti Wijaya

• A Survey of Antisemitism Research in NLP
  Julia Mendelsohn, Karina Halevy, Chan Young Park, Maarten Sap, Yulia Tsvetkov

• Alignment by Disagreement? LLM Adaptation to Toxicity Perception Variability
  Pia Pachinger, Anna Maria Planitzer, Julia Neidhardt, Allan Hanbury, Sophie Lecheler

• Personas with Attitudes: Controlling LLMs for Diverse Data Annotation
  Leon Fröhling, Gianluca Demartini, Dennis Assenmacher

• GAP: Optimizing Stealthy Jailbreak Prompt Generation for LLM Content Moderation
  Daniel Schwarz, Dmitriy Bespalov, Zhe Wang, Ninad Kulkarni, Yanjun Qi

• A Modular Taxonomy for Hate Speech Definitions
  Matteo Melis, Gabriella Lapesa, Dennis Assenmacher

• Using LLMs and Preference Optimization for Agreement-Aware HateWiC Classification
  Sebastian Loftus, Adrian Mülthaler, Sanne Hoeken, Sina Zarrieß, Ozge Alacam

• When Claims Evolve: Evaluating Embedding Robustness to Misinformation Edits (Findings of ACL)
  Jabez Magomere, Emanuele La Malfa, Manuel Tonneau, Ashkan Kazemi, Scott A. Hale

• Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don’t Tell Us (Findings of ACL)
  Chiara Di Bonaventura, Barbara McGillivray, Yulan He, Albert Meroño-Peñuela

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⚡ Lightning Talks

• Debiasing Static Embeddings for Hate Speech Detection
  Ling Sun, Soyoung Kim, Xiao Dong, Sandra Kübler

• Hate Speech in Times of Crises: a Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Online Xenophobia in Greece
  Maria Pontiki, Vasiliki Georgiadou, Lamprini Rori, Maria Gavriilidou

• Hostility Detection in UK Politics: A Dataset on Online Abuse Targeting MPs
  Mugdha Pandya, Mali Jin, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard

• QGuard: Question-based Zero-shot Guard for Multi-modal LLM Safety
  Taegyeong Lee, Jeonghwa Yoo, Hyoungseo Cho, Soo Yong Kim, Yunho Maeng

• Anti-Phishing Layered Prompting (ALP): A Structured Few-Shot Approach to Enhance Webpage Phishing Detection
  Atharva Bhargude, Ishan Gonehal, Chandler Haney, Dave Yoon, Kaustubh Vinn, Kevin Zhu

• Red-Teaming for Uncovering Societal Bias in Large Language Models
  Chu Fei Luo, Ahmad Ghawanmeh, Kashyap Coimbatore Murali, Bhimshetty Bharat Kumar, Murli Jadhav, Xiaodan Zhu, Faiza Khan Khattak