Tools and resources for detecting hate and prejudice against immigrants in social media

This position paper describes the early stages of an on going project for the development of artificial intelligence tools and resources to detect and analyze hate speech and prejudice against immigrants: IHATEPREJUDICE3. It is the result of a multi-disciplinary team that includes skills from computational linguistics and sentiment analysis, to social network analysis and visualization. The approach follows a holistic and multi-lingual perspective, which encompasses different knowledge sources to be meaningfully aggregated. Thus, although the project is currently mainly focussed on a local case-study (Piedmont, a region of Italy), it is scalable over larger territories and different languages which can be considered as representative, namely the European Union. Since this is quite an innovative approach to the problem, this position paper aims at reaching out colleagues with a potential interest in this area and/or to solicitate feedback by those who are in the early stages of their projects and wish to share their experience or join efforts.