Adel M. Wizani will present one of his recent collaborative works: HurtNet, a multilingual dictionary of hurtful terms, their senses, and examples of hurtful usage. The resource spans five languages: Arabic, French, Bulgarian, Greek, and Italian. The talk will outline the creation process for each language and the methods used for validation, focusing on the challenges of modeling hurtful language in Arabic (the presenter’s native language), particularly given its diglossic nature and semantic richness. It will also present results from a knowledge-injection zero-shot classification experiment, which demonstrate improved recall across languages, along with a qualitative analysis of model-generated explanations that reveal cross-linguistic patterns in the expression and detection of hurtful language.
Where: Sala Riunioni (1st floor)
When: 21/11/25 11:30