The First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation @ COLING 2025

19 January 2025 to 20 January 2025

We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING 2025. This workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, data scarcity, hallucinated content or data contamination.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Models and methods for generating counter-speech in different languages.
Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data.
Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion.
Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech.
Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc.
Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages.
Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech.
Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online.