Each year, the international IPAL laboratory, which includes ARENAS partners CNRS and CYU, organises a workshop that promotes collaboration between France and Singapore in the field of computer science (AI, Data, HCI, NLP, etc.). This workshop is an opportunity to take stock of existing IPAL collaborations and to launch new collaborative projects.
This year’s Sinfra workshop took place at NUS (National University of Singapore) and A*START laboratory (Singapore) on the 21st and the 22nd of June. The meeting aims to promote current and future research of IPAL laboratory, namely a French Singaporean laboratory resulting from the joint effort of CNRS, NUS, A*STAR, Univ Toulouse 3, Toulouse INP, and CYU.
Michele Linardi of CYU presented research carried out as part of ARENAS around discourse analysis, supported by cutting-edge Large Language Models at this year’s event. This research area addressed key elements of Work Package 2 of ARENAS, The Characterisation and Detection of Extremist Narratives, this work package is led by CY. The presentation specifically focused on the work of Task 2.4 in that work package Testing the algorithm with the annotated dataset to validate the annotation schema for automatic detection of extremist narratives; and preparing a re-usable model for detecting extremist narratives.
During the workshop, Michele also had the opportunity to discuss the possibility of nurturing new collaborations beneficial for the ARENAS objectives, with the perspective of collaborating with French and international experts in the NLP (Natural Language Processing) area.
