Mandola Overview
MANDOLA is a big-data processing system that monitors, detects, visualizes, and reports the spread and penetration of online hate-related speech using big-data approaches. MANDOLA consists of six individual components that intercommunicate to consume, process, store, and visualize statistical information regarding hate speech spread online.
Mandola Application
The MANDOLA mobile application provides citizens with easier hate speech reporting, by taking into account user’sanonymity. Specifically the application enables: i) the ability of anonymous reporting of hate-related speech and material found in the web and social media; ii) compatibility with Android, IOS and Windows mobile devices; iii) statistical analysis considering hate speech in order to raise the awareness of the user about the impact of hate speech on the world and iv) a FAQs section. The users are able to report hatespeech by taking a screenshot from the post or content, labeling the hate-related part and sending it to the MANDOLA API. The analysis is done by applying OCR and hate-speech analysis, and then send to a third party responsible for handling the report.
