SMASH

Social Media Analysis and Support for Humanity

SMASH is a research group that brings together a range of researchers from the University of Edinburgh in order to build on our existing strengths in social media research. This research group focuses on mining structures and behaviours in social networks.

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List of current projects:

• Detecting stance, sarcasm, hate speech, humour & fake news
• Creating language resources from social media
• Language evolution over social media
• Mental health monitoring through social media
• Social media & privacy violation
• Digital religion and religious misinformation in the Middle East
• Social bias in NLP

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