Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media

Repository for the paper "Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media" accepted at WebSci 2019

Binny Mathew, Ritam Dutt, Pawan Goyal, and Animesh Mukherjee. 2019. "Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media". WebSci

Please cite our paper in any published work that uses any of these resources.

Mathew, B., Dutt, R., Goyal, P., & Mukherje, A. (2019). Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media . In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci).

@inproceedings{mathew2018spread,
  title={Spread of Hate Speech in Online Social Media},
  author={Mathew, Binny and Dutt, Ritam and Goyal, Pawan and Mukherje, Animesh},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Web Science},
  year={2019},
  organization={ACM}
}

1. Lexicon_Simple.txt ---- It consists of the manually selected keywords from hatebase and urbandictionary which were hateful in nature

2. Lexicon_Extended.txt ---- It consists of several variants of the lexicons present in the Lexicon_Simple.txt file along with the original set.