SAS helps fight hate speech

Leader in the analytical industry SAShas joined the inaugurated by Stanisław Lem's Polish Institute of Future social campaign "Get the hate together" aimed at limiting hate speech in public space.

According to the report "Teens 3.0" prepared by the NASK State Research Institute, as many as 48.8 percent of Polish students have experienced violence in cyberspace. Moderators of portals, forums and social media are not always able to respond quickly and remove harmful content. Artificial intelligence comes in handy, which helps to identify hate speech based on text analysis

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Systems using artificial intelligence, based on linguistic rules, allow not only to locate specific words commonly considered offensive in the text but also to assess the context of the statement and its overtones.

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“Please note that offensive comments or messages do not have to contain commonly known curses or invectives. They can be slang terms. By analyzing huge data sets, the system is constantly learning what content is inappropriate,” Mariusz Dzieciątko, Senior Business Solution Manager Data Science at SAS, explains.

 (WBJ)