The International Law and Language Association (ILLA) has become an important voice in the field of language and law. This year the annual international conference was hosted by ARENAS partner, CY Cergy Paris University, on June 11th and 12th at the CY Maison de la Recherche. The theme of this year’s conference is Corpus linguistics applied to extremist narratives: What are the implications for cybercrime analysis?
Several members of the ARENAS consortium are delivering important papers based on the research they are carrying out as part of the project. Gwenaelle Bauvois from the University of Helsinki opened the event with a paper, “Can a narrative be a cybercrime? The legal grey zone of extremist narratives.” Consortium members Dimitra Niaouri, Michele Linardi and Julien Longhi from CY Cergy Paris University shared their paper “Artefacts-supported Multiclass Online Hate Speech Classification”. Further papers delivered by ARENAS Partners were “Humour as a Trojan Horse: Exploring Internet Memes and Extremist Narratives in Far-Right Ideologies” by Ana Yara Postigo Fuentes, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and “Corpus linguistics applied to extremist narratives: what are the implications for cybercrime analysis?” by Laurène Renaut, also from CY Cergy Paris University.
