Thou shalt not hate: Countering Online Hate Speech

Hate content in social media is ever-increasing. While Facebook, Twitter, Google have attempted to take several steps to tackle the hateful content, they have mostly been unsuccessful. Counterspeech is seen as an effective way of tackling the online hate without any harm to the freedom of speech. Thus, an alternative strategy for these platforms could be to promote counterspeech as a defense against hate content. However, in order to have a successful promotion of such counterspeech, one has to have a deep understanding of its dynamics in the online world. Lack of carefully curated data largely inhibits such understanding. In this paper, we create and release the first ever dataset for counterspeech using comments from YouTube. The data contains 13,924 manually annotated comments where the labels indicate whether a comment is a counterspeech or not. This data allows us to perform a rigorous measurement study characterizing the linguistic structure of counterspeech for the first time. This analysis results in various interesting insights such as: the counterspeech comments receive much more likes as compared to the non-counterspeech comments, for certain communities majority of the non-counterspeech comments tend to be hate speech, the different types of counterspeech are not all equally effective and the language choice of users posting counterspeech is largely different from those posting non-counterspeech as revealed by a detailed psycholinguistic analysis. Finally, we build a set of machine learning models that are able to automatically detect counterspeech in YouTube videos with an F1-score of 0.71. We also build multilabel models that can detect different types of counterspeech in a comment with an F1-score of 0.60.Comment: Accepted at ICWSM 2019. 12 Pages, 5 Figures, and 7 Tables. The dataset and models are available here: https://github.com/binny-mathew/Countering_Hate_Speech_ICWSM201

Catalogue du fonds bengali

Mukherje Prithwindra. Catalogue du fonds bengali. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 72, 1983. pp. 13-48

Implementing Knowledge Management In Indian Academic Libraries

Explores library professionals’ perceptions of knowledge management concepts, thier applications and the challenges for incorporating them into academic library practices. The study is based on the review of literature and the results of web-based survey of sixty-four library professionals of thirty academic libraries in India. The findings suggest that the term ‘knowledge management’ is familiar to most of the professionals but the ways of knowing and degrees of their understanding are varied. They focused primarily on management of explicit knowledge and their roles were perceived as basic information management activities. Professional education and training programs, community of practices, information technology and knowledge sharing were identified as the important tools of knowledge management in academic libraries. Misunderstanding of knowledge management concepts, lack of knowledge sharing culture, top management commitment, incentives and rewards, financial resources and IT infrastructure are found to be the major challenges faced by library professionals to incorporate knowledge management into library practices

Implementing Knowledge Management In Indian Academic Libraries

Explores library professionals’ perceptions of knowledge management concepts, thier applications and the challenges for incorporating them into academic library practices. The study is based on the review of literature and the results of web-based survey of sixty-four library professionals of thirty academic libraries in India. The findings suggest that the term ‘knowledge management’ is familiar to most of the professionals but the ways of knowing and degrees of their understanding are varied. They focused primarily on management of explicit knowledge and their roles were perceived as basic information management activities. Professional education and training programs, community of practices, information technology and knowledge sharing were identified as the important tools of knowledge management in academic libraries. Misunderstanding of knowledge management concepts, lack of knowledge sharing culture, top management commitment, incentives and rewards, financial resources and IT infrastructure are found to be the major challenges faced by library professionals to incorporate knowledge management into library practices