Iscte hosted, at the end of March, kNOwHATE project’s kick-off meeting. Leading this Project, that counts with European funds (about 300k euros) is Rita Guerra, a CIS -Iscte Researcher. BRU-Iscte researcher, Catarina Marques from the Data Analytics group, is involved in Work Package 3 – Data collection, pre-processing and annotation, more specifically in Task 3.5 – Statistical Analysis. In addition, BRU’s science communication staff is in charge off the Task 1.5 – Communication and Dissemination Strategy.
The main goals of this project are:
- Analyse the content and propagation of OHS as well as online speech (OCS) in user generated content;
- Create models for automatic detection of online hate speech covering its both forms – direct and indirect.
- Offer culturally sensitive and tailored guidelines and tools for effective prevention and countering narratives to be used by individuals, civil society organizations and policy makers.
Among kNOwHATE consortium members are ILGA, SOS Racismo, Casa do Brasil de Lisboa and CICDR.
kNOwHATE project started on March 2022 and it will end on February 2024.
