schedule

Full Program – September 11, 2023 (Prague time, GMT+2)

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9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:00 Invited Talk: "Understanding counterspeech and the impact of AI" by Zahed Amanullah

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:35-11:20 Invited Talk: "Generated texts should not worsen users' emotional state" by Ehud Reiter

11:20-11:40 Remote presentations

• Just Collect, Don't Filter: Noisy Labels Do Not Improve Counterspeech Collection for Languages Without Annotated Resources
  Pauline Möhle, Matthias Orlikowski and Philipp Cimiano

• What Makes Good Counterspeech? A Comparison of Generation Approaches and Evaluation Metrics
  Yi Zheng, Bjorn Ross and Walid Magdy
  
  

11:40-12:10 Papers Lightning Talks

• Automatic counter-narrative generation for hate speech in Spanish
  M. Estrella Vallecillo-Rodríguez, Arturo Montejo-Ráez and María-Teresa Martín-Valdivia

• CONAN-MT-SP: A Spanish corpus for counter narrative using GPT models
  María Estrella Vallecillo Rodríguez, Maria-Victoria Cantero-Romero, Isabel Cabrera-de Castro, L. Alfonso Ureña-López, Arturo Montejo-Ráez and María-Teresa Martín-Valdivia

• Counterspeech for Online Harm Mitigation: A Systematic Review of Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie, Florence Enock, Jonathan Bright and Verena Rieser

• From Generic to Personalized: Investigating Strategies for Generating Targeted Counter Narratives against Hate Speech
  Mekselina Doganc and Ilia Markov

• Distilling Implied Bias from Hate Speech for Counter Narrative Selection
  Nami Akazawa, Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu and Marco Guerini

• Weigh Your Own Words: Improving Hate Speech Counter Narrative Generation via Attention Regularization
  Helena Bonaldi, Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza and Marco Guerini
  
  

12:10-13:40 Lunch Break

13:40-15:00 Poster session

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Panel Discussion

16:30-16:40 Closing Remarks