CRANE-toolbox

Project CRANE (Crisis Racism and Narrative Evaluation) aims to support researchers and anti-racist organisations that wish to use state-of-the-art text analysis algorithms to study how specific events impact online hate speech and racist narratives. CRANE Toolbox is a Python package: once installed, the tools in CRANE are available as functions that users can use in their Python programs or directly through their terminal. CRANE targets users with basic programming but no machine learning skills.

Tracking the changes in online sinophobic hate speech resulting from the progress of the Covid19 pandemic to raise awareness and provide anti-racists organizations with contextualized information to support their actions.