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"abstract": "Today, news media organizations regularly engage with readers by enabling them to comment on news articles. This creates the need for comment moderation and removal of disallowed comments-a time-consuming task often performed by human moderators. In this paper we approach the problem of automatic news comment moderation as classification of comments into blocked and not blocked categories. We construct a novel dataset of annotated English comments, experiment with cross-lingual transfer of comment labels and evaluate several machine learning models on datasets of Croatian and Estonian news comments.",
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"text": "Comment sections are an important part of news sites, providing an opportunity for newsrooms to engage with their audience. Comment moderation aims to safeguard respectful conversation by blocking comments that are uncivil, disruptive or potentially unlawful. This is a complex task that balances legal implications and editorial guidelines. Common categories of blocked comments include: unsafe or illegal content (ex. defamation or hate speech), disruptive content (ex. trolling), advertisements, and copyrighted content (Risch and Krestel, 2018) .",
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"text": "While newsrooms are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits provided by artificial intelligence and expect comment moderation to become more manageable, implementation of AI solutions is far from prevalent (Society of Editors, 2018; Beckett, 2019) . Some newsrooms use custom automated comment moderation solutions developed inhouse or third-party plugins to complement human moderation. Others rely on external companies that provide comment moderation performed by teams of contracted moderators (Society of Editors, 2018; Beckett, 2019; Woodman, 2013) .",
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