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Vita

Vignesh waran Shankaran is a Doctoral Researcher in the Computational Social Science (CSS) Department. His work is located at the intersection of natural language processing and social science. Before joining GESIS, he was a research intern at the Computational Social Science Lab, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu

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Research

Vignesh's research deals with understanding, preventing, and counteracting fear speech on social media platforms.

Publications

Presentation at a conference

Sankaran, Aditya Narayan, Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Sampath Lonka, and Rajesh Sharma. 2024. "Don’t Touch The Classics: A Study on Identifying and Rectifying Gender Stereotypes in Rhymes and Poems." The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, 2024-05-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.11752.

Sharma, Shakshi, Anwittaman Datta, Vigneshwaran Shankaran, and Rajesh Sharma. 2023. "Misinformation Concierge: A proof-of-concept with curated Twitter dataset on COVID-19 vaccination." 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023-10-21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3583780.3614746.

Other

Shankaran, Vigneshwaran, and Rajesh Sharma. 2024. "Analyzing Toxicity in Deep Conversations: A Reddit Case Study." doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.07879.