Reducing the moderation effort of user comments with the help of automation using text analytical methods (MODERAT!)
In recent years, a rapid increase in racist, political and religiously motivated hate commentary has led many newspaper editors to deactivate their online comment functions on their websites. While this is understandable from an economic point of view for the individual publishers, serious problems for the public discourse arise in view of restriction quotas of up to 50%. The MODERAT! project aims to use an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to develop software tools and a web platform that will enable operators to moderate web debates with significantly less effort. Comments are analyzed automatically, so that only a small number of critical comments have to be viewed manually. In this way, media houses and publishers should be able to offer web debates again on their own websites and thus enter into a more active exchange with the readership.
Project status | definitely finished |
Project time | 07.02.2019- 31.01.2022 |
Website | https://www.moderat.nrw/ |
Funding source | MKW - EFRE-Wettbewerb Neue Leitmärkte - CreateMedia.NRW |
Project number | EFRE-0801431 |
Keywords | Information Systems; Information Management |