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Platform Governance: Past, Present and Future Authors: With: MITHUN DAS Abhisek Siddharth Jaiswal Binny Mathew Punyajoy Saha GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… #platform #Governance ACM FAccT Find Us @FAIR at Mastodon.World AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) AI Ethics Watch

How come Amazon Help expects a price tag for the clothing item which does not come up with a price tag in the first place? Is it a new scam to pass the return date?

Paper accepted in AACL-IJCNLP 2022 (aacl2022.org/home): Title- Hate Speech and Offensive Language Detection in Bengali Authors- MITHUN DAS, Somnath Banerjee, Punyajoy Saha, Animesh Mukherjee Congrats!🎉 #AACLIJCNLP2022

Huge congrats to Dr. Animesh Mukherjee (Animesh Mukherjee) for being named as an Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Member for the year 2022 for “Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing”. 🏆 awards.acm.org/award_winners/… #acm #distinguishedmember #award

Paper accepted in WebSci'2023 (websci23.webscience.org): Title- Transfer Learning for Multilingual Abusive Meme Detection Authors- Mithun Das and Animesh Mukherjee Congrats!🎉 #WebSci2023

Paper accepted in ICWSM 2023 (Dataset Track) (icwsm.org/2023/index.htm…): Title- HateMM: A Multi-modal Dataset for Hate Video Classification Authors- Mithun Das, Rohit Raj, Punyajoy Saha, Binny Mathew, Manish Gupta, Animesh Mukherjee Congrats!🎉 #ICWSM2023

So apparently, Amazon Help is sending old products and rescheduling the return process every day, trying to exceed the 10-day limit. I need to complain to the consumer forum.

Attention #EMNLP23 reviewers. Please engage in discussions with the authors during the discussion phase. Many of the authors have put up painstaking efforts to cook up their rebuttals. Let us repay their hard work. EMNLP 2024 #NLProc

PhD Synopsis Seminar at CNeRG 🎉✅ Mithun Das presented his PhD synopsis. Title: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT PARTICIPATING ENTITIES IN THE RISE OF HATEFUL CONTENT IN SOCIAL MEDIA Supervisor: Animesh Mukherjee He published in NeurIPS, WWW, HT, LREC, IJCNLP etc.

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If you are at EMNLP 2024 please come by to our presentation in the Resources & Eval track. West 3, 8:30am-10am, 9th Dec, 2023. Hate-Alert Mithun Das Presenter: Punyajoy Saha Online: underline.io/events/431/ses…

Animesh Mukherjee EMNLP 2024 Hate-Alert Mithun Das Punyajoy Saha Punyajoy Saha presenting the paper in the Main Conference! Please join in at West 3 if you are around...

Paper accepted in eaclmeeting 2024 Findings (Long). Title: Low-Resource Counterspeech Generation for Indic Languages: The Case of Bengali and Hindi Authors: Mithun Das, Saurabh Kumar Pandey, Shivansh Sethi, Punyajoy Saha, Animesh Mukherjee Congratulations!🎉 #EACL2024

One JRF post available for research on explainable hate speech detection models from multimodal content. Application deadline: 4/4/2024. Please apply through the link: erp.iitkgp.ac.in/SRICStaffRecru… Punyajoy Saha Mithun Das Naquee Rizwan CNeRG IIT KGP #NLProc

PhD Thesis Defense Completed! ✅ Mithun Das defended his PhD thesis titled "Investigating the Role of Different Participating Entities in the Rise of Hateful Content in Social Media"! His advisor was Animesh Mukherjee. We wish him the very best for his future!