The role of sarcasm in hate speech.A multilingual perspective
Simona Frenda · Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) · 2018
The importance of the detection of aggressiveness in social media is due to real effects of violence provoked by negative behavior online.For this reason, hate speech online is a real problem in modern society and the necessity of control of usergenerated contents has become one of the priorities for governments, social media platforms and Internet companies.Current methodologies are far from solving this problem.Indeed, several aggressive comments are also disguised as sarcastic.In this perspective, this research proposal wants to investigate the role played by creative linguistic devices, especially sarcasm, in hate speech in multilingual context.