BERLIN: An international team of scientists said Monday it had joined forces to combat the spread of anti-Semitism online with the help of artificial intelligence.
The project Decoding Anti-Semitism includes discourse analysts, computational linguists and historians who will develop a highly complex, AI-driven approach to identifying online anti-Semitism, the Alfred Landecker Foundation, which supports the project, said in a statement Monday.
In order to prevent more and more users from becoming radicalized on the web, it is important to identify the real dimensions of anti-Semitism also taking into account the implicit forms that might become more explicit over time,” said Matthias Becker, a linguist and project leader from the Technical University of Berlin.
The team also includes researchers from Kings College…