Topic Modeling and Characterization of Hate Speech against Immigrants on Twitter around the Emergence of a Far-Right Party in Spain

Topic Modeling and Characterization of Hate Speech against Immigrants on Twitter around the Emergence of a Far-Right Party in Spain

In this paper, we sought to model and characterize hate speech against immigrants on Twitter in Spain around the appearance of the far-right party Vox. More than 240,000 tweets that included the term ‘Vox’ between November 2018 and April 2019 were automatically collected and analyzed. Only 1% of the...

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Main Authors: Carlos Arcila Calderón, Gonzalo de la Vega, David Blanco Herrero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
Series:Social Sciences
Subjects:
Twitter
hate speech
topic modelling
natural language processing
VOX
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/11/188

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