{"id":26945,"date":"2018-02-23T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T10:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/innovation\/?p=26945"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T11:02:20","slug":"teaching-robot-detect-xenophobia-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/innovation\/teaching-robot-detect-xenophobia-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching a \u2018robot\u2019 to detect xenophobia online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"9360\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">A robot? <\/em>Not exactly.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two buzzwords, particularly when talking about the realm of data innovation. Artificial Intelligence is the ability that machines have to mimic the <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/insights\/2014\/07\/machine-learning-cognitive-systems-next-evolution-enterprise-intelligence-part\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/insights\/2014\/07\/machine-learning-cognitive-systems-next-evolution-enterprise-intelligence-part\/\">cognitive<\/a> processes of humans. The word \u2018artificial\u2019 comes from this idea that machines are not intelligent <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">per se<\/em>. Behind them, there are humans programming them to perform certain tasks. Nevertheless, depending on the complexity of their programming, some machines are more \u2018intelligent\u2019 than others. This means that some machines only need to be programmed once and they will continue to perform the tasks or increase the complexity of the task performed, on their own. For data enthusiasts and innovators working in the humanitarian sector, AI expands the possibilities of processing data in a more accurate and timely way \u2014 data that could help Senior Management make decisions quicker or prepare our teams on the ground better for eventual contingencies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"16af\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">According to TechTarget, a robot is a machine designed to execute one or more tasks automatically with speed and precision. Some robots, for example, only need simple programming to do specific repetitive tasks, and sometimes they do not necessarily require AI embedded in them. This is the case of a robot in an assembly line. However, not all AI is necessarily applied into a robot. For example, sometimes AI is applied in a computer or a mobile device. And sometimes \u2014 once AI is programmed \u2014 it has the ability to \u2018learn\u2019 from the original programming and then compute tasks on its own. An example of this is Siri on your iPhone. Siri, is a form of applied AI that is capable of \u2018learning\u2019 voice patterns and convert them into dictation. It recognises a language, a local accent to then, perform a task \u2014 like looking for the weather conditions in a particular city. Siri synthesises millions of data points coming from different words, languages, and even different accents around the world, becoming \u2018more intelligent\u2019 and recognising more patterns every time. Siri uses then Machine Learning (ML) techniques to process all this amount of data, and responds in a matter of seconds \u2014 even if the same question is asked in different ways with a different tone \u2014 how\u2019s the weather today? Is it going to rain? Is it cold? To compute an answer: <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">bring an umbrella.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"84e9\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Applications of machine learning<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">In the world of marketing, machine learning has been used to process large amounts of information to make decisions on how to design new products and improve services for customers. However, in the humanitarian sector, AI applications are a new area for exploration. AI and ML can allow humanitarians, innovators, and data specialists to compile, process, and visualise huge amount of data in a matter of seconds. Many humanitarian emergencies are complex and first-responders often only have partial information to act quickly. To have a full picture of a complex situation, many various pieces and elements should be analysed. Sadly, humans do not have the time nor the resources to compile all the different information in the short timeframe needed to respond. Every so often decisions are made with partial evidence to act quickly and save lives. And this is precisely where machines can help.<\/p>\n<p id=\"e926\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">For example, currently, UNHCR staff and partners spend time, money, and human resources in analysing from different angles and perspectives the issue of local integration: socially, economically, legally, and culturally. This is done to respond to the questions related to appropriateness and feasibility of integration of <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/ph\/persons-concern-unhcr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/ph\/persons-concern-unhcr\">UNHCR\u2019s persons of concern<\/a> into local communities.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a33b\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Big Data: challenges and opportunities in the humanitarian context<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Depending on the context and in order to have a full picture of a specific situation, humanitarians frequently use proxies: data points that are not by themselves directly relevant, but that provide sampled insights of some issues that are completely unknown to them. Often these insights are found in traditional forms of data: secondary data, census information, surveys, focus groups discussions notes, interview recordings, household visits or key informant interviews. However, additional insights can also be found in other forms of data, the non-traditional datasets: radio broadcasts, earth observations and geospatial data, call centre\/call data records, remote sensing, wearables, downloads, news outlets, and social media \u2014 just to mention a few.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b952\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The amount of data produced by these non-traditional data sources is huge and usually \u2018heavy\u2019 in terms of: 1) data storage, occupying large disks\/server space (<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">volume<\/em>); 2) produced in short intervals \u2014 often even produced at seconds intervals (<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">velocity<\/em>); 3) comes in different formats, like voice recordings or free text (<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">variety<\/em>) and often; 4) the information is produced from one single \u2014 and occasionally biased perspective\/angle (<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">verification<\/em>). This is the reason why these non-traditional data sources are also known as big data sources \u2014 with the four \u201cVs\u201d which are the primary attributes of big data.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9bde\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">For example, in social media, Twitter produces an enormous amount of data in a matter of seconds. It is calculated that approximately 200 billion tweets are produced in a year (<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetlivestats.com\/twitter-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.internetlivestats.com\/twitter-statistics\/\">6,000 tweets per second<\/a>). The amount of energy and time that our UNHCR colleagues, particularly our communication colleagues, would need to have to collect, compile and analyse and visualise results to respond to specific questions \u2014 would be a challenge to their already burdensome work. Some of them have done it\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/publications\/brochures\/5909af4d4\/from-a-refugee-perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/publications\/brochures\/5909af4d4\/from-a-refugee-perspective.html\"> manually, through compiling meaningful insights<\/a>. Compiling social media data is important to humanitarian organisations, like UNHCR, to understand persons of concern most urgent needs and to establish a two-way communication with them. But to scale-up this process, and most importantly, to be able to quantify it with a certain degree of statistical significance, humanitarians can rely on machines: to sample, compile, and catalogue data in real-time.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"afbb\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Training a machine to detect xenophobia<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">In 2015, the UNHCR Innovation Service partnered with UN Global Pulse, the United Nations initiative for big data analytics, to find additional insights into a rapidly-evolving setting: the Mediterranean situation. Originally intended to analyse intentions for predicting movements, the teams turned to Twitter data to identify patterns that could help provide insights into cross-border movements. The teams used machine-learning to \u201cfind\u201d, \u201cread\u201d, \u201ccompile\u201d, and \u201ccatalogue\u201d tweets found in specific geographical locations and particular languages (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, English, French, Greek, German) attempting to find movement intentions or comments on services provision that would incentivise their movement. Although some comments were relevant, the sample of tweets found was not enough to provide sound mathematical-based evidence.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6f60\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">However, the machine found anomalies of comments that were particularly exacerbated during the <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-19\/here-are-the-major-terror-attacks-in-europe-from-paris-to-oslo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-19\/here-are-the-major-terror-attacks-in-europe-from-paris-to-oslo\">terrorist incidents in Europe<\/a>. Every time a new incident happened \u2014 Munich, Paris, Berlin to name some of the key events \u2014 posts with a negative sentiment towards refugees appeared in different parts of the world. Sometimes these posts even had a negative association with refugees with the incidents. The teams then re-trained the machine with a human rights-based bias: to find comments <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">that will trigger intense dislike or hatred against people that are perceived as outsiders, strangers or foreigners to a group, community or nation, based on their presumed or real descent, national, ethnic or social origin, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or other grounds. Manifestations of xenophobia include acts of direct discrimination, hostility or violence and incitement to hatred. Xenophobic acts are intentional as the goal is to humiliate, denigrate and\/or hurt the person(s) and the \u201cassociated\u201d group of people (OHCHR). <\/em>The team \u2018taught\u2019 a machine to \u2018learn\u2019 how to read, compile, categorise, anonymise, and aggregate different types of Twitter posts, in different languages and across cities and to quantify both xenophobia and integration-friendly comments.<\/p>\n<p id=\"c226\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">We drafted a\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/social-media-and-forced-displacement-big-data-analytics-machine-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/world\/social-media-and-forced-displacement-big-data-analytics-machine-learning\">White Paper <\/a> titled, \u201cSocial Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics &amp; Machine-Learning,\u201d to share the process and quantitative results of experimenting with machine-learning for understanding the dimension of the sentiment in the region. The conclusions of the paper can serve as insights of one single data source (Twitter) just as one single piece of the puzzle on what host communities think about persons of concern \u2014 like refugees \u2014 arriving into their countries. It could be used as evidence for humanitarian organisations for preparing an advocacy campaign or drafting policy recommendations to better counter xenophobia. For UNHCR teams, it could serve them to direct their community-based protection initiatives by understanding the main issues that refugees encounter when arriving into a new country.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"bc74\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">The promise of machine learning: more questions than answers<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">By using machine-learning, both teams had a snapshot of evidence on questions related to integration for just one single region. However, in data science \u2014 where data is king \u2014 data insights produce always, more questions. After analysing some of the results of the experiment, the teams reflected on the following questions: A) <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">how can we use AI for advocacy purposes in other regions?<\/em> B) h<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">ow can we help other agencies and organisations to use these tools in order to understand complex contexts where social media is not prevalent, or there is no electricity\/connectivity?<\/em> Also, when more walls are going up, C) <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">how can we leverage AI to analyse big data and create a counter-narrative for hate speech?<\/em> And finally, D) <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">how can we translate integration and counter xenophobia in a digital world? <\/em>If you have an answer to any of these questions or would like to experiment with us to respond to them, feel free to reach us. We have some \u2018robots\u2019 that could help with some of the tasks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"991e\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">This essay was originally posted in the recently released report: UNHCR Innovation Service: Year in Review 2017. This report highlights and showcases some of the innovative approaches the organization is taking to address complex refugee challenges and discover new opportunities. You can view the full <\/em><a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/innovation\/year-review-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/innovation\/year-review-2017\/\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Year in Review microsite and download the publication here.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robot? Not exactly. 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