Introduction
摘要
This chapter introduces the research focus: improving harmful content detection (fake news, hate speech) using transfer learning and data-driven techniques. It highlights the motivation behind studying harmful online content and outlines key challenges in subjective NLP tasks—particularly the scarcity of annotated data and the contextual nature of user-generated content (Sect. 1.1). It presents a set of five guiding research questions addressing preprocessing, contextual modeling, and sentiment integration (Sect. 1.2). This chapter outlines the book’s structure and the experimental goals for each chapter. This chapter concludes by positioning this book within existing literature and summarizing the main contributions, which include novel experiments, enriched data sets, and the integration of affective signals into fact-checking pipelines.