Prof. Pradeep Kumar Roy’s co-authored research paper entitled ‘Ensuring Safety in Digital Spaces: Detecting Code-Mixed Hate Speech in Social Media Posts’ has been published in the Elsevier Data & Knowledge Engineering journal. His co-author is Dr. Abhinav Kumar, from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, 211004, Uttar Pradesh.
This research on the social networks striving to offer positive content to users, yet a considerable amount of inappropriate material, including rumors, fake news, and hate speech, are the ones that persist with their damaging impact. Despite significant efforts to detect and prevent hate speech in the early stages, it remains widespread due to issues like misspellings and mixed language in the various posts. This research thus utilizes advanced algorithms like LSTM, and BERT to develop an automated system for detecting hate speech in the code-mixed languages posts to overcome the significant challenges.