When law deals with gender
By Beatrice Fracchiolla, University of Lorraine The 6th General Conference of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA) took place recently at Jagiellonian University in Kraków recently. This worldwide network of linguists and lawyers works on the language matrix of law. In that framework, language is not simply seen as a subject in the legal […]
NGOs invited to support ARENAS in Fostering Democracy and Safe Spaces
The ARENAS (Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives) project, invites Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to unite in its mission to combat political extremism, analyse extremist narratives and tackle online hate speech. A call for lay definitions is being launched among NGOs across Europe. These lay definitions will be compared with the definitions by experts of […]
New Paper on Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) Classification Published
By Bruno Machado Carneiro, Michele Linardi, Julien Longhi (This paper has been accepted for publication in the International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities – 2023) In this article, we review the main aspects of our study about state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology applied to automatic Socially Unacceptable Discourse (SUD) detection. […]
ARENAS Project Launches Introductory Video
The ARENAS project has launched a short video to introduce the project and share its objectives. The video outlines the issues that the project will consider over the next four years, and how it will address these issues and presents the 15 partners from 9 different countries who are working together on the project. To […]
ARENAS Project Management handbook published
The ARENAS Project Management handbook has recently been completed and delivered to the European Commission. It was prepared by Principal Investigator Julien Longhi, full professor of discourse analysis at CY Cergy Paris Université, leader of WP1, and Aude Garses, Consultant at Euronovia (who had been commissioned for the launch of the project). This internal document […]
Ethics in a Post-Truth World
We are living in societies hit by multiple crises: in recent years, we have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid threats, a brutal war in Ukraine, inflation, sky-high energy prices and dropping living standards. The consequences of these events have been significant in increasing polarisation, strengthening nationalism, impatience with different views, and the rise of extremism. Social media, […]
