[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Fortive on Feb 04 (NSH 3305) -- Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh -- Hope Speech and Help Speech: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate

[Aayush Bansal]

Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh will be giving a seminar on  "Hope Speech and Help
Speech: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate" from *12:00 - 01:00 PM* in Newell
Simon Hall (NSH) 3305.

CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive. Lunch will be served.

Following are the details of the talk:

*Title: *Hope Speech and Help Speech: Surfacing Positivity Amidst Hate

*Abstract: *Tackling online attacks targeting certain individuals, group of
people, or communities is a major modern-day web challenge. Research
efforts in hate speech detection thus far have largely focused on
identifying and subsequently filtering out negative content that
specifically targets such communities. However, this blocking the hate
approach alone may not suffice in certain scenarios. We focus on two
important cases where amplifying the positives is equally important:
refugee crisis in the era of ubiquitous internet, and heated online
discussions during heightened political tension between nuclear
adversaries. In the context of the Rohingya refugee crisis and the
India-Pakistan conflict triggered by the Pulwama terror attack, we describe
two lines of work, help speech and hope speech, exhibiting a thematic
similarity of surfacing positivity amidst hate.


*Bio*: Ashique KhudaBukhsh is currently a Project Scientist at the School
of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Prior to this role,
he was a postdoc mentored by Prof. Jaime Carbonell at CMU. His PhD thesis
(Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, also advised by
Prof. Jaime Carbonell) focused on referral networks, an emerging area at
the intersection of Active Learning and Game Theory. His Master's thesis at
the University of British Columbia (UBC), advised by Prof. Kevin
Leyton-Brown and Prof. Holger H. Hoos, focused on automated algorithm
design for combinatorial hard problems. More details are here:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~akhudabu/

To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.

-- 
Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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