© 2020 Breaking the Silence – Machine Learning Identified Taboos by Amalia Foka.
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Breaking The Silence uses machine learning methods to understand what are the contemporary taboo topics. It aims to highlight and bring to focus what topics are currently discussed as taboos. The generated summarizations underline the different topics discussed at different times and additionally the arguments for the creation, maintenance, or destruction of a taboo. Learn more.
© 2020 Breaking the Silence – Machine Learning Identified Taboos by Amalia Foka.
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