Detecting and understanding harmful content online

Developing benchmarks and datasets for online harms researchers, and guidance for practitioners using tools to detect online harms

UK

This project aims to systematise research in online harms (e.g. research on hate speech). It will do this by developing lists of datasets and benchmarks to compare different attempts to solve the problem (e.g. benchmarks to compare different hate speech classifiers), and developing guidelines for practitioners who wish to use the outputs of online harms research (e.g. government or policy experts who want to develop a quantitative understanding of hate speech in a certain context).